![]() ![]() If it was worn like a blanket, however, it would be hard to explain how the cloak slipped off his head without slipping off his body. If it was worn like a regular cloak with a hood it would be perfectly understandable that his head became uncovered. He was still in the library the Invisibility Cloak had slipped off his head as he’d slept, and the side of his face was stuck to the pages of Where There’s a Wand, There’s a Way. On the other hand, in the very next chapter we find the opposite implication: However, if it was worn like a regular cloak with a hood it would be much harder, if not impossible, for it to slip off. In that case, the cloak could easily slip and fall off. He lurched forward to try and catch it, but too late the egg fell down the long staircase with a bang as loud as a bass drum on every step - the Invisibility Cloak slipped - Harry snatched at it, and the Marauder’s Map fluttered out of his hand and slid down six stairs, where, sunk in the step to above his knee, he couldn’t reach it.Īgain, this fits much better if we assume like your second option that he was wearing it like a blanket. Later in that same chapter we have the following passage: This would be a very precise description if the cloak is draped over the person’s entire body a regular cloak with a hood, by contrast, would more accurately be described as “wearing”. It was awkward moving under the cloak tonight, because Harry had the heavy egg under one arm and the map held in front of his nose with the other. For instance, the books often describe a person as being “under” or “beneath” the Invisibility Cloak, such as in Chapter Twenty-Five of Goblet of Fire: Indeed, there are several other passages that imply your second option as well. Though he first puts it on his body and then on his head, which would seem consistent with a regular cloak with a hood, the phrase “pulled the cloak over his head” actually seems to imply that it is one piece of blanket-like material that just needed to be shifted in order to cover his head. ![]() He pulled the cloak over his head and his reflection vanished completely. Sure enough, his reflection looked back at him, just his head suspended in midair, his body completely invisible. Harry looked down at his feet, but they were gone. Harry threw the cloak around his shoulders and Ron gave a yell. The first time Harry puts on the cloak it is described as follows: ![]()
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