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

[oryx_leucoryx]

And James must have shared it with his very close associates back in the day.

[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.

[mary-j-59.livejournal.com]

This is brilliant - and interesting comments, too. However, one of the things that bothered me most about the cloak? That Harry did not give it to Ginny, if he cared about her so much. This is even more true about the map, of course, which fits Mr. Weasley's definition of a dark object to a T. The young girl could really have used both these objects - the map, especially. But Harry doesn't even think of getting them to her. Instead, he sits around watching her dot on the map while she suffers the Carrows and tries to help Neville's resistance.

Yes, our Harry is the embodiment of love, isn't he?

[oryx_leucoryx]

Terri, I attempted to respond to you on 'Training, part 4.5', but either my browser or LiveJournal wouldn't let it post.