There is the theory that the Invisibility Cloak’s power to hide one from Death does not only apply to Dementors, but to death in general. So if you put the cloak over someone who is dying, they would stay alive, at least until the Cloak is removed and death can find them again.
It’s just another of those crazy crackpot theories floating around here, but I think it could fill in that gap in your theory.
The legend in canon says exactly that; the Peverell brother who got the Cloak was most successful, and lived a long time because the Cloak allowed him to evade death (until one day he took it off and got screwed).
I think that there’s a difference between preventing imminent death, and avoiding death. That is, there’s a difference between being in a situation where you “should” die, but you don’t, and not getting in such a situation to begin with.
And in the canon story (which may not be canon; it appears in the canon, but that doesn’t mean it’s canon), the third brother greeted Death “as an old friend”, so apparently he had the same attitude that Dumbledore had: dying after a full life is not a tragedy.
Of course he had that opinion, Rowling was writing themes so deathist that even the me of that time—who had yet to even hear of transhumanism—was thrown by it.
Voldemort is defined as evil partially just because of his fear of and avoidance of death—if you notice, she explicitly built it so that most of his atrocities occurred after and because of the steps he took to avoid death.
There is the theory that the Invisibility Cloak’s power to hide one from Death does not only apply to Dementors, but to death in general. So if you put the cloak over someone who is dying, they would stay alive, at least until the Cloak is removed and death can find them again.
It’s just another of those crazy crackpot theories floating around here, but I think it could fill in that gap in your theory.
The legend in canon says exactly that; the Peverell brother who got the Cloak was most successful, and lived a long time because the Cloak allowed him to evade death (until one day he took it off and got screwed).
He took it off and gave it to his son. In canon he meets death intentionally.
I think that there’s a difference between preventing imminent death, and avoiding death. That is, there’s a difference between being in a situation where you “should” die, but you don’t, and not getting in such a situation to begin with.
And in the canon story (which may not be canon; it appears in the canon, but that doesn’t mean it’s canon), the third brother greeted Death “as an old friend”, so apparently he had the same attitude that Dumbledore had: dying after a full life is not a tragedy.
Of course he had that opinion, Rowling was writing themes so deathist that even the me of that time—who had yet to even hear of transhumanism—was thrown by it.
Voldemort is defined as evil partially just because of his fear of and avoidance of death—if you notice, she explicitly built it so that most of his atrocities occurred after and because of the steps he took to avoid death.
I’m surprised Harry didn’t try this for Hermione, then. Maybe he wouldn’t have expected it to work, but it’s still an easy hypothesis to test.
It’s a shame you retracted this, because I wanted to +1 it.
I don’t actually remember why I retracted it. I tried to un-retract it afterwards, but I don’t think that’s possible.
Well, Harry suggested himself that they practiced on the “little deaths” of Dementors first … so you’re probably on to something ;-)