Potters as their own Secret Keepers?

[laura]

No: HPFGUIDX 87118

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "KathyK" <zanelupin at y...> wrote:
> Arya wrote: 
>  
> >Hmm, I wonder why Dumbledore doesn't just put the content of the 
> prophecy  under the Fidelius Charm?  Can the secret of the charm 
> be "gleaned" from  one using Legilimency?  Must the secret be 
> willingly given?<
> 
 
> 
> 

> 
KathyK:
> *sniiip*
> As for the second point, I do believe the Secret-Keeper must 
> willingly give away the secret.  For this I point to Flitwick in 
> PoA, US 205, The Marauder's Map:
> *sniiip*
> "The information is hidden inside the chosen person, or Secret-
> Keeper, and is henceforth impossible to find--unless, of course, 
the 
> Secret-Keeper chooses to divulge it."
> *sniip*
> The key phrases in this quote are "impossible to find" and "Secret-
> Keeper chooses."  I think the secret hidden inside a single, living 
> soul being impossible to find is pretty straightforward.  
*sniiipity snip*
> The other key phrase is the kicker.  The Secret is revealed to 
> others only if the Secret-Keeper *chooses* to tell someone. 

lola:
Firstly, sorry Kathy for snipping so much of a great post!
i think that a the two major factors in the working of the fidelus 
charm are
(1)the loyalty of the secret-keeper to the secret, and 
(2)the trust of theose who have the secret for the secret 
keeper.  'Fidelity' can be used in both such contexts.  I believe 
that both criteria must be fufilled for the charm to be efective, in 
this case that is, Wormtail must be loyal to the Potters, and the 
Potters must trust Wormtail to keep their secret.
With the charm being so important and complex, I think it is likely 
that the process is very much a two-way thing:Dumbledore could not 
just have grabbed a random person off the street to be the secret 
keeper.
Anyway I have no idea how much this adds to anything, Im just doing 
my best to avoid working on my essay...