It seems reasonable that Cloak belongs to Harry. Then successive timetravels instatiate Cloak1 with owner Harry1, Cloak2 with owner Harry2, etc... What's unsettling is that Mad Eye can see through the true cloak of invisibility!
I think EY phrased it as "more narrowly-focused artifacts can defeat other artifacts in the area of their specialty", or something like that (does anyone have the reference?).
Of course, that still seems odd, because the Cloak's specialty is "being invisible" and the Eye's is "seeing in every direction at once, seeing through solid objects, and seeing magic including hiding or invisibility spells". I must be missing something. Maybe the Cloak's specialty actually has to do with Death, and the mundane invisibility is a side effect?
Edit: New thread posted here.
This is a new thread to discuss Eliezer Yudkowsky’s Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality and anything related to it. This thread is intended for discussing chapter 86. The previous thread has long passed 500 comments.
There is now a site dedicated to the story at hpmor.com, which is now the place to go to find the authors notes and all sorts of other goodies. AdeleneDawner has kept an archive of Author’s Notes. (This goes up to the notes for chapter 76, and is now not updating. The authors notes from chapter 77 onwards are on hpmor.com.)
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