![]() My body’s gone! Put it on a chair, sit on said chair: you’re sitting on nothing. ![]() Sprint home, bag off, phone camera out, cloak on. It’s not just a cloak, it’s not just a toy, this invisibility cloak? It’s pure magic. I Colloportus’d myself in The Spinoff’s podcast studio, perfected my cloak swish and my ‘oh no, something’s coming’ face, and then turned on the camera. Designed by British scientist Dr Mark Gasson, the Harry Potter Invisibility Cloak combines relatively simple technology to allow people to recreate the effects of the invisibility cloak from the movies. I can bite ice-cream with my front teeth, I’ve never had a brain freeze and I can turn invisible.Īn invisibility cloak was dropped on my desk last week by a tawny owl. I sometimes press the button to cross the road and the green man appears instantly. It’s fine I may not have been trained in the healing properties of Dittany by Professor Sprout or perfected my swish-and-flick with Professor Flitwick, but I can still do magic.Įvery day I look at the clock at exactly 11:11am. The owl tasked with flying it here got lost somewhere over the Pacific and returned home for safety. Hogwarts acceptance letters are supposed to arrive at 11 years old. Nobody has noticed yet, but I know they will. Luckily it’s not too hot, but now I have an embarrassingly large stain on my t-shirt. The coffee flies towards me, but it’s too fast. Oh no, I’ve left my coffee in the kitchen. I get to work, make a coffee, sit down on my usual chair at my usual desk. ![]() That’s extra good luck, I think to myself. It’s a Tuesday, and a snowy owl flies above my head on the way to work. Alice Webb-Liddall got the chance to try one out. The Harry Potter Invisibility Cloak has just been released in toy stores worldwide.
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