Even with Bahry obliviated there should be lots of clues it was Harry. Especially now that Quirrell is down and whatever spells he was casting to confound the wizarding equivalent of forensics are probably down. Harry sized foot prints in the dust, cloth fibers where Harry lay down? The angle/position that the stunning spell hit Bahry implying it was cast from a low elevation?
Or to put it another way who are the Wizarding community going to think did this?
Ex-death eaters? Not killing Bahry is a sign that it is not them. The unusual patronus that seemed to be able to hide Bellatrix, and will possibly kill Dementors next chapter, has the hallmarks of Harry.
If they didn’t know about the existence of time turners then they might be fooled, but he has used them so much, it is really a poor alibi.
So yeah put me in the camp of all hell should still be breaking loose even if Harry doesn’t get caught red handed in Azkaban.
Even with Bahry obliviated there should be lots of clues it was Harry. Especially now that Quirrell is down and whatever spells he was casting to confound the wizarding equivalent of forensics are probably down. Harry sized foot prints in the dust, cloth fibers where Harry lay down? The angle/position that the stunning spell hit Bahry implying it was cast from a low elevation?
The wizarding world doesn’t stoop to non-magical forensics. Footprints? Fibers? How barbaric.
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.
1 ) But Harry thinks the scapegoat was possibly him! Which doesn’t help.
2) Or if Quirrell wasn’t trying to set up Harry it could have been random ex-death eaters, hence the need to kill Bahry with a killing curse for a consistent story. Which Harry scuppered by saving him.
3) Assuming a scape goat likely to obliviate rather than killing curse, Harry doesn’t know who it is and what power they should have and how smart they should be. His actions, such as stopping cast the patronus, while keeping Bellatrix hidden, are giving more information to the wizarding world. Might they be able to guess that whoever is keeping Bellatrix hidden has a deathly hallow cloak thing?
Actually apparently Dumbeldore believes that Dementors should be able detect people in an Invisibility cloak, because they sense them through emotion. According to the wiki page anyway. So maybe Dumbledore would be fooled.
Actually apparently Dumbeldore believes that Dementors should be able detect people in an Invisibility cloak, because they sense them through emotion.
Everyone expects invisibility cloaks to not be very good—they usually aren’t. The Deathly Hallow one is described as being fantastically valuable for being a ‘true’ invisibility cloak*, and not merely equivalent to a ‘very strong Disillusionment charm’ and weakening quickly with age (to quote from memory Luna Lovegood’s dad; and speaking of them, we haven’t heard very much from them since the first few chapters).
If Dumbledore expects a ‘true’ Invisibility cloak, then this is basically == expecting Harry.
* Yes, this does raise the question how Dumbledore could apparently see through it to Harry and the Mirror of Erised in book 1. The charitable explanation is that he was bluffing or heard Harry; the uncharitable one is that like Lucas, Rowling only came up with the Deathly Hallows and the ultimate ending late in the game.
he uncharitable [explanation] is that like Lucas, Rowling only came up with the Death Hallows and the ultimate ending late in the game
That is undeniable. Invisibility cloaks are mentioned in the early books, and no hint whatsoever is given that Harry’s is special. It would have been better if she could have done a real Lucas (or an Eliezer) and edited the earlier references in the earlier books.
Even with Bahry obliviated there should be lots of clues it was Harry. Especially now that Quirrell is down and whatever spells he was casting to confound the wizarding equivalent of forensics are probably down. Harry sized foot prints in the dust, cloth fibers where Harry lay down? The angle/position that the stunning spell hit Bahry implying it was cast from a low elevation?
Or to put it another way who are the Wizarding community going to think did this?
Ex-death eaters? Not killing Bahry is a sign that it is not them. The unusual patronus that seemed to be able to hide Bellatrix, and will possibly kill Dementors next chapter, has the hallmarks of Harry.
If they didn’t know about the existence of time turners then they might be fooled, but he has used them so much, it is really a poor alibi.
So yeah put me in the camp of all hell should still be breaking loose even if Harry doesn’t get caught red handed in Azkaban.
The wizarding world doesn’t stoop to non-magical forensics. Footprints? Fibers? How barbaric.
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.
Quirrell would plan well to already have a scapegoat prepared.
1 ) But Harry thinks the scapegoat was possibly him! Which doesn’t help.
2) Or if Quirrell wasn’t trying to set up Harry it could have been random ex-death eaters, hence the need to kill Bahry with a killing curse for a consistent story. Which Harry scuppered by saving him.
3) Assuming a scape goat likely to obliviate rather than killing curse, Harry doesn’t know who it is and what power they should have and how smart they should be. His actions, such as stopping cast the patronus, while keeping Bellatrix hidden, are giving more information to the wizarding world. Might they be able to guess that whoever is keeping Bellatrix hidden has a deathly hallow cloak thing?
Actually apparently Dumbeldore believes that Dementors should be able detect people in an Invisibility cloak, because they sense them through emotion. According to the wiki page anyway. So maybe Dumbledore would be fooled.
Grandparent (my comment) was probably
Everyone expects invisibility cloaks to not be very good—they usually aren’t. The Deathly Hallow one is described as being fantastically valuable for being a ‘true’ invisibility cloak*, and not merely equivalent to a ‘very strong Disillusionment charm’ and weakening quickly with age (to quote from memory Luna Lovegood’s dad; and speaking of them, we haven’t heard very much from them since the first few chapters).
If Dumbledore expects a ‘true’ Invisibility cloak, then this is basically == expecting Harry.
* Yes, this does raise the question how Dumbledore could apparently see through it to Harry and the Mirror of Erised in book 1. The charitable explanation is that he was bluffing or heard Harry; the uncharitable one is that like Lucas, Rowling only came up with the Deathly Hallows and the ultimate ending late in the game.
That is undeniable. Invisibility cloaks are mentioned in the early books, and no hint whatsoever is given that Harry’s is special. It would have been better if she could have done a real Lucas (or an Eliezer) and edited the earlier references in the earlier books.
I’m not sure which is worse—a single magic gene or midichlorians. But to be honest I might be willing to trade off Ron for Jar Jar.