Another tidbit on the Cloak

[terri-testing.livejournal.com]

The Cloak makes one disconnected from other people, right?

So that effect is probably mitigated in respect to, and only to, people who are under it with you. People you share it with, if you share it with anyone.

So Hermione and Ron are more real to Harry than anyone else.

And... remember us complaining in DH9 that Harry's indifferent to the Weasleys' fate, the family that had taken him in and treated him as their own, until he thinks of Ginny?

He was ordered to keep his cloak on his person at all times the previous spring, right? If you wanted to snog your girlfriend without ticking off her big brother, your best friend, by being too blatent about it, what would you do?

So that's why Ginny's more real to him afterwards than most people.

Comments

[dracasadiablo.livejournal.com]

I always figured that H/G, for lack of a better word, romance is primarily based on some kind of a twisted Voldy!soul part host longing / connection thing. Harry lived his whole life with part of Vold's soul in him, had this special connection to Voldy; and then he lost it. Ginny had a connection to diary!Tom, he/it siphoned her soul / possessed her; and then it went away. So, really to each other they are the closest they can come to that connection again.
It's chilling and horrible but (to me) it almost sounds better then the alternative. "Possession twisted them" as opposed to "Harry wanted to have and own Lily v2, Ginny was obsessed with the The Boy Who Lived and had to have him".

But this makes sense to me. It explains why Hermione and Ron are only frineds Harry have (or why the nobody from the Trio ever bother making other frineds), why Hermione and Ron ended together and why Harry / Ginny happened too.

[oneandthetruth.livejournal.com]

Aaaggghhh! You figured it out! That's the explanation I came up with in my sporking, in a chapter I haven't posted yet, for why HP/GW works.

[terri-testing.livejournal.com]

Hrrgh! (That's a snort of laughter at one's response to this.)

The H/G Voldie-bond makes sense. Not sure about Ron & Hermione--are you saying the cloak-bond made them the only possible alternatives for each other?

Shivers, remembering the description of Black & Potter--couble act, closer than brothers...