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I can't believe we all glazed over this one. I only know because a TVTroper noticed in the thread. And Eliezer posted in that thread shortly thereafter and made no comment on it.
Yes, it's possible that McGonagall is just assuming, or that Dumbledore lied to her. But still.
I glazed over it because I always assumed that Dumbledore had given Harry the cloak; he had it in his possession in canon, after all, and there's no reason that he shouldn't have had it in MoR just because nobody's an idiotic fool (which as I see it is MoR's main departure from canon).
So when I read that, I forgot that it was supposed to be a mystery.
I do think that Dumbledore was the one that gave him the cloak.
However, McGonagall was shocked that he had -an- Invisibility Cloak, not -the- Invisibility Cloak. If she knew that Dumbledore had the Potter's cloak (assuming same as canon), then the odds of Harry getting a completely different cloak would be low enough that she could assume that Dumbledore gave Harry part of his inheritance.
I think that she just made an assumption, considering it very unlikely that he got it any other way since his access to the family vault is limited.