[HPforGrownups] re: SecretKeeper needed at the Dursley's house

[srsiriusblack at aol.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 48804

In a message dated 25/12/2002 04:40:19 Eastern Standard Time, 
noir_l at yahoo.com writes:


> "Catlady (Rita Prince Winston) <catlady at wicca.net>" <catlady at wicca.net> 
> wrote:
> I can do no better than to quote Steve bboy_mn: "Just one problem, 
> Harry's wearabouts is not a secret. ... So, there couldn't be a 
> secret keeper because it's obviously wasn't kept secret."
> 
> 
> Everybody knows he is at Hogwarts. But does everybody know about where he 
> spends his summers at the Dursley's? Some people know but there is no 
> evidence that the wizarding world knows about the Dursleys and that that is 
> the place where Harry stays for the summer. Voldemort could easily kill him 
> there, so he would need a secret keeper to hide him while he was there. 
> Besides, a secret keeper just hides the appearance of a person--they become 
> invisible to the person seeking them out unless the secret keeper gives 
> them away. In the book it said that Voldemort could be looking right in the 
> window and never see him. He is safe at Hogwarts but the Dursley house 
> needs some protection too especially when Harry is there.

Some people HAD to know where he was. In PS/SS, Harry recalls "dtrange" 
people waving, bowing, embracing etc him  throughout his memory. Obviously 
these people knew who he was--- and he was always out with the Dursleys on 
these occasions.... so, one owuld think that it was somewhat a common 
knowledge that wizards and witches knew where to find Harry-- or at least 
knew what he looked like as he aged......

which brings up another question- How did random wizards and witches identify 
Harry unless someone in the WW was providing information?

I think that the ancient magic protecting Harry at the Dursleys did not 
prevent people from knowing where he was... but simply preventing harm to 
him-- look at how Harry evades Dudley's gang in PS/SS by magically ending up 
on the roof after diving behind trashbins....

SOmething strange was happening, yes... but I still think that many people 
knew where Harry was.

-Snuffles
"All men dream: but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty 
recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the 
dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dreams with 
open eyes, to make it possible. This I did."  T.E. Lawrence- Seven Pillars of 
Wisdom


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