Secret Keepers & Sirius Black

[Gregory Lynn]

No: HPFGUIDX 51710

But a secret keeper isn't keeping a person, he/she is keeping a *secret*

POA, Ch 10 Marauder's Map, p205 in the scholastic paperback edition:

"'An Immensely complex spell,' he said squeakily, 'involving the magical concealment of a secret inside a single, living soul.'"

The secret to the location of James Potters' hideout and the secret to the location of Lily Potters' hideout could be considered two secrets the same way my wife's home phone number and my home phone number can be considered two different things.  In fact, there was nothing requiring that they hide out together.

Similarly they could have named Black the secret keeper then made James, Lily, or who knows even one year old Harry the keeper of Black's secret that he was the secret keeper.

Personally, if I new a murderous nutjob like Voldemort were after me, I'd made it more complicated yet.  

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Gregory Lynn

Torsten wrote: 
> I think the obvious question is: Why didn't they use each other? James as secret keeper 
> for Lily and Harry, and Lily as secret keeper for James. But the answer's the same, 
> anyway.
> 
> -Torsten

Grey Wolf responded--
  Could you put a box inside another, and then the outer one inside the 
  inner one? Obviously not. By the same reasoning, the secret keeper 
  cannot have as secret keeper the person he's secretly keeping (notice 
  the wording: hides a group of people *inside* a single soul).




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