Dumbledore Dilemmas

[Steve]

No: HPFGUIDX 54744

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "gruenke" <patgruenke at c...> wrote:
> > > 2. Why didn't Dumbledore become the Potters' Secret Keeper???? In 
> > > PoA, McGonagall said that Dumbledore had offered to be Secret 
> > > Keeper. Why didn't Lily and James take him up on that offer? 
> 
> Wow, you posed some EXCELLENT questions!  My two knuts on the Secret 
> Keeper question is that it might be physically difficult to be (or to 
> become) a Secret Keeper, and Lily and James didn't want to endanger 
> Dumbledore in any way.  (Any Robert Jordan Wheel of Time fans out 
> there?  Oath rod?  That's what made me think of this.)
> 
> ...edited... 
> 
> Gruenke

bboy_mn:

If you recall Sirius was planning to get lost when he became the
Secret Keeper. That is, he was going to go away, move to America or
Asia, or somewhere outside the influence of Voldemort. That way,
Voldemort could never find him a get the secret out of him. Even after
switching the Secret Keeper to Pettigrew, Sirius was planning to get
lost in order to keep the Death Eaters suspecting that he was indeed
the Secret Keeper; he was going to be a decoy.

Dumbledore on the other hand was a very prominent high profile person
at the forefront of the fight against Voldemort, he was hardly in a
position to 'get lost'. So, I suspect that James and Sirius decided
against Dumbledore because it was too much of an imposition, and
because Dumbledore was too actively involved in the war. It would seem
wise to choose a Secret Keeper that was going to be safe, and secluded.

Just a thought.

bboy_mn