Another tidbit on the Cloak

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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.

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[terri-testing.livejournal.com]

Now I'm thinking harder about your first point.

Huddling under the cloak together while they wait for their designated target could just be James and Sirius's way of snatching a grope with each other without admitting what they are doing, of course.

Only I'm suddenly wondering about... pulling pigtails.

Is the suppressed homoeroticism ONLY between James and Sirius (and Peter's obvious unrequited crush on James)?

I mean, teen Snape is described (by Harry, who hates him) as physically unprepossessing. But the Wizarding culture trains to value magical power above any other attribute.

As in, every Drarry shipper in the world reads Harry's stalking and harassing of Draco as evidence for his suppressed, unable-to-be-expressed-in-any-other way, erotic fascination with the other boy.