Possession of the Cloak
“His passion … was the work he had taken over from Illyan….
No. The work Haroche had taken away from Illyan.
Oh.
… I’m blind, blind, blind! Motive! What’s an elephant got to do around here, to advance and be recognized?” Miles Vorkosigan in Memory, by Lois McMaster Bujold ( Read more... )
I'll be happy if I can get to his old age. :-)
Moreover, he is looking at a particular crisis rather than the overall hypothetical risk. ... And if Tom is moving aggressively NOW against the Potters, the Cloak is in immediate danger where it is.
So he's making a few mistakes:
a. He's risking the security of the Hallows on the assumption that the Potters will be attacked first. Voldemort could change his mind, after all. Or be laying a false trail with the suspected spy, Snape.
b. He's doubling the amount of work required to keep the Hallow safe. Why move it from A to B if you're only going to have to move it again to C?
So he didn't need to keep it at hand, just out of Tom's. And where he can get at it fairly quickly if he wants. Easy enough. Stick it in a mokeskin pouch and give it to Ab to bury in the goat pen.
Ah, if only Rowling's wizards were that clever! If only Rowling was that clever!
Why, then, we'd have dark lords hiding *Horcruxes* in goat pens and Gringotts vaults and volcanoes and the bottom of the sea and lots of places where a teenage boy couldn't get at them! (After all, he couldn't fetch a sword that was just a few metres down in the bottom of a small frozen pond.)
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