[HPforGrownups] Pondering that Secret Keeper thing

[Fred Uloth]

No: HPFGUIDX 77605

At 12:16 AM 8/17/2003 +0000, melclaros wrote:
><snip>My question is this, once the Secret Keeper imparts his information
>to you, are you free to pass it on? I'd say not. It was made pretty
>darn clear that ONLY the Secret Keeper would be able to impart said
>secret.
>So, following that path, what happens if you try? (Say Mundungus is
>expecting a delivery of dented cauldrons and wants to give #12 to
>UPS.) Will the person you are speaking to just hear jibberish? <snip>

As Flitwick explains in PoA Ch10 (pg 205US):
"...As long as the SECRET-KEEPER refuses to speak, You-Know-Who could 
search the village where Lily and James were staying for years and never 
find them, not even if he had his nose pressed against their sitting room 
window!"
So it would appear that the person given the address by the 
non-secret-keeper would simple see the houses on either side and not find 
#12. What I never understood was why James wasn't Lily's secret keeper and 
Lily wasn't James' secret keeper...other than the fact that it would have 
made the series non-existant....OK, I guess that is why they didn't do it 
that way...but still, to use a wimp like PP (who would sell his mother for 
a nickle and never showed signs of bravery) instead of DD or SB is mind 
boggling.