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Invisibility cloak

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Invisibility cloak
Object information
Manufacturer

Unknown

Made

Medieval era

Usage

To make a wizard or witch invisible

Owners
First appearance

Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone

Latest appearance

The Tales of Beedle the Bard (real)

The cloak of invisibility owned by Harry is one of the Deathly Hallows, denoted by the triangle.

An Invisibility cloak is a magical garment which renders whatever it covers unseeable. They may be made from hair of Demiguise, a magical creature that possesses the power to become invisible. This property is used to make the wearer of the cloak invisible. However, as Xenophilius Lovegood tells Harry, Ron, and Hermione, such a cloak will gradually lose its effectiveness as the hair becomes more and more opaque. The cloak can also be formed from an ordinary traveling cloak, enchanted with an exceptionally strong disillusionment charm or a bedazzling hex.

There are ways of making one's self invisible by using magic other than invisibility cloaks. An example is the Disillusionment charm. Dumbledore has remarked to Harry that he didn't need a cloak to become invisible.

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[edit] The Invisibility Cloak of legend

Harry Potter using Peverell's legendary cloak

The Tale of the Three Brothers, a wizarding legend, speaks of a cloak of invisibility which (shortly after Christmas 1997) Xenophilius characterizes as one which "endures eternally, giving constant and impenetrable concealment, no matter what spells are cast at it." This cloak of legend is actually the cloak that James Potter owned, later given to Harry Potter, because the Potters are in fact descendants of the youngest Peverell Brother, Ignotus Peverell.

Ron Weasley was the first to speculate that Harry's cloak is indeed among the famed Deathly Hallows, since it was at least two generations old (James Potter and then Harry), and most invisibility cloaks wear out after that time, or at least lose some effectiveness, yet Harry's was as good as new, which raised suspicion.

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