I don’t think that it is obvious to most of the other characters that it is a patronus that is hiding Bellatrix. It would also be discounted because she remains invisible under the cloak after Harry’s patronus is extinguished in Ch. 56.
Canon Dumbledore would have observed the masking power of Harry’s patronus, and would be clever enough to to guess that the Harry’s cloak could have this property. Presumably the HPMOR Dumbledore is at least this clever.
Dumbledore however observed Harry’s extreme response to an unshielded dementor, so he might be confused at a Harry that walks around unprotected and apparently unaffected.
Working against Harry is that Dumbledore’s patronus could be used to identify Harry’s patronus as the one it observed in Azkaban, and that any dementor that observes Harry, and survives, could also identify him. It seems that if Dumbledore wants to later verify or exclude Harry as the intruder, he can.
I don’t think that it is obvious to most of the other characters that it is a patronus that is hiding Bellatrix. It would also be discounted because she remains invisible under the cloak after Harry’s patronus is extinguished in Ch. 56.
Canon Dumbledore would have observed the masking power of Harry’s patronus, and would be clever enough to to guess that the Harry’s cloak could have this property. Presumably the HPMOR Dumbledore is at least this clever.
Dumbledore however observed Harry’s extreme response to an unshielded dementor, so he might be confused at a Harry that walks around unprotected and apparently unaffected.
Working against Harry is that Dumbledore’s patronus could be used to identify Harry’s patronus as the one it observed in Azkaban, and that any dementor that observes Harry, and survives, could also identify him. It seems that if Dumbledore wants to later verify or exclude Harry as the intruder, he can.