Subject: Re: Arabella Figg as Secret Keeper (or, rather, not)

[Maria]

No: HPFGUIDX 45746


Julie:

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "Aesha Williams" <awillia2 at g...> wrote:
Anyway, if she was
> the SK, I don't think it would matter if Harry was at The Burrow 
all summer
> or not- the DE's and Voldemort still wouldn't know where he was. 
And so it
> gets a little hairy (pardon the pun)- is there another form of the 
Fidelus?
> Or some similar charm? I mean, he's at Hogwarts and obviously other

people
> can see him there, so any one of them could tell their parents they

went to
> school with Harry and everyone would know. (because doesn't the 
Fidelus, in
> effect, make people invisible to all except their SK?) 
> 
> Aesha

I'm sorry if I don't make total sense today, as I have the flu.  But 
I wanted to point out that several wizards already knew where Harry 
was, bowed to him in shops, could have followed Harry home.  Harry 
mentions this in year 1.  He even recognizes one of them when he 
meets him again at the pub with Hagrid.  So as to Harry being hidden 
all those years, I just don't think so.  Not unless for some reason 
as you get near the Dursley's it becomes a non-existant place.

me:

Moreover, (forgive me for not being exact and quote precisely here,
but i'm in the office) i seem to recall that even Voldie knows.
Didn't he tell his DEs at the graveyard, while explaining the whole
story of his resurrection, that while Harry was at his relatives he
couldn't harm him, that's why he had to get a loyal DE in Hogwarts?
Or something like that?

It's my impression that Harry being at the Dursleys is not a secret,
everybody seems to know, therefore no need for a secret keeper. It
must be some other kind of old magic.

Maria

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