Pondering that Secret Keeper thing

[queenofeverythang]

No: HPFGUIDX 77619

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, Fred Uloth 
<prof_uloth at h...> wrote:
> 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.

The question is - is it possible to keep your own secret? Since 
James & Lily share the same secret maybe they can't keep the 
secret - maybe that defeats the purpose of the spell somehow. 
Perhaps having an uninvolved party keeping the secret is the key 
to what makes the spell work - a trust thing or something. at 
least thats what i told myself so that it would make sense to me.

but perhaps it still doesn't make complete sense - it's 4am, sue 
me :)

-QoE