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Possession of the Cloak

Aug 31, 2011 23:09

“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... )

author: terri_testing, likely stories, room of requirement, invisibility cloak, albus dumbledore, secrets and lies, hallows

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madderbrad September 1 2011, 07:24:54 UTC

Wow, I love this observation:

So. Moments after agreeing with Harry that the Cloak couldn’t possibly have helped James or Lily, Albus contradicted this to tell Harry that the Cloak’s “true magic” is that it can be used to shield oneself and others simultaneously. I.e., that Lily maybe could have used it to sneak past Tom with Harry in her arms, had she been bold and cool-headed enough.

Excellent.

Mind you, these days I just like to collect Rowling errors - this makes #4,319 :-) - so I'd say this is another one of these. Because there's no way Rowling would have wanted us to think that Dumbledore deliberately placed the Potters in jeopardy like this, right?

Although - for whatever reason - he *did*. Thanks to your observation. All so Harry could have his nifty Cloak in book #1.

But Albus couldn’t risk Tom getting hold of the thing when he killed the Potters. Getting two of the three. Needing only to defeat the Deathstick’s master (which might be done by treachery or guile or chance; Tom didn’t have to be more powerful or ( ... )

Re: Room's Requirements annoni_no September 7 2011, 18:43:55 UTC

"But--what we do know doesn't rule out someone making hirself a system administrator. Giving it the instruction, "Give my instructions priority over everyone else's, even after I leave the room." As long as no one else had gotten in first with a competing instruction ( ... )

madderbrad September 3 2011, 11:27:10 UTC

Be careful ... what we arrange for Dumbledore to use with the Hallows can also be employed by Voldemort for the Horcruxes. And then dear Harry would never be able to destroy them all!

sunnyskywalker September 6 2011, 01:46:40 UTC

True! Unless there's a way to destroy the entire castle and everything in it (with no retrieval option, so if Dumbledore used the hiding option, V could only ignore them or destroy them). But she couldn't even kill the Sorting Hat, so Hogwarts was definitely safe.

The risk of completing the set terri_testing September 1 2011, 16:56:54 UTC

"with Dumbledore holding both Hallows then one single defeat of the Headmaster will give Tom the set ( ... )

Re: The risk of completing the set madderbrad September 2 2011, 00:52:40 UTC

And Albus is less logical than you, and more vain ...

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 ( ... )

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