We're reminded quite a few times in DH that Dumbledore had James' Cloak of Invisibility on the night that Lily and James died. We never quite know why he had it. The closest thing to an official answer we get, I suppose, is Afterlife!Dumbledore telling Harry that his "guess" has been right, that the Order Leader had "asked [James] to borrow it, to ( Read more... )

I hated to see it but was convinced Sirius was dead. It was after a talk about this with a person that has read loads of mystery books that we started to find clues that Sirius could be alive, and now the list is so long that I´d have to make groups in order to make better sense.

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I wrote these before this community existed, so, er, here are the links.

They're not quite essays in the traditional format, but they are concerned with characterization and meaning in the HP books...

On Sirius's characterization

Death and meaning in popular fiction, with a focus on The Death in OotP

Snape as romantic hero (and why that doesn’ ( Read more... )