Location Auras (was Fidelius Charm/ Who LV wanted to kill)

[avonlea0112]

No: HPFGUIDX 32142

> --- In HPforGrownups at y..., "cindysphynx" <cindysphynx at h...> wrote:
> > Maybe the charm works because, in the wizarding world, a wizard's 
> > location is a part of his magical power, like an aura.  (This is 
why 
> > the Weasley's clock knows when Arthur is at work or at home.)  
Other 
> > wizards can track the wizard by it if they know how.  Owls can 
also 
> > track wizards by it.  Voldemort alludes to it in GoF when he says 
he 
> > has ways of tracking down traitors.  (I think he said this, but I 
> > can't for the life of me locate the reference).
> > 
> > So the Fidelius Charm is (to borrow a Star Trek concept) like a 
> > complex cloaking device.  Pettigrew as secretkeeper was carrying 
the 
> > Potters' location aura around so that no one could track them 
down.  
> > Once he gave it to Voldemort, Voldemort could track the Potters' 
aura 
> > as easily as the Weasley's clock tracked Arthur.
> > 
> > I would also imagine that, once the secretkeeper has the secret 
> > (location aura), it is rather easy to get it out of him.  Sirius 
> > makes Pettigrew the secretkeeper as a bluff, figuring Voldemort 
will 
> > successfully seek out and find Sirius (even though Sirius planned 
to 
> > go into hiding).  For Sirius to change the plan like this, there 
must 
> > have been some real possibility that Sirius could be found, even 
in 
> > hiding.  Maybe this suggests that Sirius also gives off a 
location 
> > aura that Voldemort can track.
> > 
Perhaps a wizards "location aura" can be protected by the fidelius 
charm in the same way land can be made "unplottable." Unplottable 
land is inaccessible and impossible to draw on a map.  Presumably, a 
muggle airplane flying over unplottable land would go through 
something like a tesserect (to borrow from Madeleine L'Engle) - a 
sort of wrinkle in space and time.  

If the fidelius charm works this way, perhaps it makes a wizard's 
aura be unplottable.  As with unplottable land, it is accessible only 
if you know the way, hence a secret keeper.  Someone has to know how 
to get to you.

Did that make any sense at all?  It appears kind of jumbled to me in 
retrospect, but is my gist understandable?

~Avonlea~