Fidelius (WAS: Re: Change in Hagrid's Disposition of Sirius' Motorbike)

[grey_wolf_c]

No: HPFGUIDX 43755

Barb wrote:
> Another reason why I believe that JKR hadn't thought of the Secret 
> Keeper/Fidelius concept this early is that Hagrid was at the Potter
> home.  There is never an explanation concerning why he is there or
> how he found their home, if the Potters were under the protection of
> the Fidelius Charm.  This isn't explained in PoA, either.
>  
> --Barb

Why wouldn't Hagrid find the Potter's home? For one thing, the Fidelius 
was already broken by the time he got in the way: the Potters were 
already dead, so no magic protected them. Besides, the Fidelius doesn't 
make the place were the protected people are living impossible to find; 
it only makes the protected people invisible, or unremarkable, for the 
duration of the spell except for the secret keeper. The quote is 
something on the lines of "You could press your face gainst the window 
of the room were the Potters are and not see a thing." This implies 
that, even if you knew were to look for them, you wouldn't be able to 
see them, so you could do very little against them. Of course, 
wide-area effects probably would affect them, so I'd imagine that the 
exact location of the Potters was also a secret, but it would have been 
known by Dumbledore, and he would pass it on to Hagrid when he sent him 
on his way to search for survivors.

Hope that helps,

Grey Wolf