Timeline for How come having a Deathly Hallow is not a big deal?
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| Jul 3, 2019 at 9:15 | comment | added | Mr Lister | @DarrelHoffman The whole story The Hobbit wasn't even intended to take place in the same universe at first. | |
| Jul 2, 2019 at 20:05 | comment | added | Karl | The Hallows are just three independent magical items, which happen to be wrought into that fairy about Death. HP is very much an agnostic story, and the staunch atheist Hermione is usually right in the end. I think here too. | |
| Jul 2, 2019 at 13:58 | comment | added | Darrel Hoffman |
@Kai Interesting the parallels between the Invisibility Cloak in HP and the One Ring in LotR. Both were introduced to the protagonist as just some run-of-the-mill magical item that grants invisibility, and only later revealed to be one of the most powerful artifacts in the world. (I believe Tolkien is on record as not intending the Ring to be so significant when he first introduced it in The Hobbit, so it was also a retcon.)
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| Jul 2, 2019 at 7:12 | comment | added | Luaan | @coblr He knows Harry has an invisibility cloak. Invisibility cloaks aren't common, but they aren't all that rare either - surely someone like the Malfoys could get one if they wanted to. Stealing it would be beneath them (though granted, the Malfoys are increasingly shown as rather silly villains as the series progresses, probably because Draco was becoming kind of popular - remember the Fonz? :P). | |
| Jul 1, 2019 at 18:41 | comment | added | Upper_Case | @coblr Are there that many good opportunities, though? With magic available, conclusively identifying an opportunistic thief would not be very difficult for Hogwarts staff. The cloak may have been easy to steal in a handful of instances, but I don't see much chance for the thief to keep it short of going on the run. And it doesn't seem immediately obvious how superior an invisibility cloak it is, either. | |
| Jul 1, 2019 at 14:35 | comment | added | Bilkokuya | @LevenTrek In the 90s I had a kid my Shiny Ninetails, and that wasn't even that valuable for a pokemon card. I find it hard to believe Harry's held onto a one-of-a-kind "gives you a perfect way to escape after stealing it" cape of "do what you want". | |
| Jul 1, 2019 at 10:04 | history | edited | TheLethalCarrot♦ | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jul 1, 2019 at 6:04 | comment | added | LevenTrek | @coblr - good point. Draco doesn't seem surprised at all by the invisibility cloak. Given his character, I would expect him to recognize it's value and steal it. | |
| Jul 1, 2019 at 6:01 | comment | added | coblr | @LevenTrek, Malfoy also knows. At least in the Half-Blood Price, when he freezes Harry on the train, uncovers him, kicks his face, then covers him back up and says "enjoy the ride back to London". We just watched it again, and both my wife and I were curious why no one ever seemed to try and take the cloak from him, even with a good opportunity. | |
| Jul 1, 2019 at 6:00 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/StackSciFi/status/1145572896644972545 | ||
| Jul 1, 2019 at 5:41 | comment | added | Shreedhar | They were well known but since they were a part of a kids’ storybook and not actual magical history, people actually considered it to be a myth. Cannot type the details but remember the chapter in DH when Ron, Harry and hermione are at the Lovegoods and Hermione reads the tales of beedle for them. It’s mentioned sometime there | |
| Jul 1, 2019 at 2:09 | answer | added | Obsidia | timeline score: 23 | |
| Jun 30, 2019 at 23:30 | answer | added | Nacht | timeline score: 8 | |
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| S Jun 30, 2019 at 19:51 | history | edited | Stormblessed | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jun 30, 2019 at 16:40 | comment | added | Kai | I think the real answer is because the deathly hallows are a retcon, to be honest. | |
| Jun 30, 2019 at 16:34 | answer | added | Laurel | timeline score: 8 | |
| Jun 30, 2019 at 15:30 | answer | added | Alex | timeline score: 49 | |
| Jun 30, 2019 at 15:16 | comment | added | LevenTrek | you said "more and more people", but I'm pretty sure Dumbledore is the only person who really knows (beyond Harrry's close friends Ron and Hermione). maybe Lupin finds out later? who else? | |
| Jun 30, 2019 at 15:14 | comment | added | Anthony Grist | People learn Harry has an Invisibility Cloak. I don't think many people at all know that it's actually one of the Deathly Hallows. | |
| Jun 30, 2019 at 14:43 | answer | added | marcellothearcane | timeline score: 8 | |
| Jun 30, 2019 at 14:28 | history | asked | Mor Zamir | CC BY-SA 4.0 |