[HPforGrownups] OOP: Hermione & Krum

[T.M. Sommers]

No: HPFGUIDX 71855

serenadust wrote:
> 
> I really think that Krum is now part of the Order, and that Hermione 
> has been asked by Dumbledore to keep him up to date.  After all, 
> based on their interaction in GoF and Rita Skeeter's articles, no 
> one would suspect that Hermione has been writing to him for any 
> reason beyond the obvious personal one, and Krum is no longer a 
> student at Durmstrang where, according to Draco, they 
> actually "teach" the dark arts. He's old eonough to be a full 
> member,since he's of age. *That's* what I think they 
> were really talking about at the end of GoF, and that's why her face 
> was impassive.  Hermione is excellent at keeping secrets, Harry has 
> very little interest in her interaction with Krum anyway, and Ron's 
> reaction is a great way to cover up her true purpose in maintaining 
> the correspondence (and I don't really think she minds tweaking Ron 
> a little in the bargain<vbg>).

I don't think that Dumbledore would use this method to keep in 
touch with Krum if Krum were in the Order.  The security of going 
through Hermione is negligible; if anyone gets close enough to 
see the sender of a letter, that person could just as well read 
the entire letter.  And I don't think letters sent by owl post 
have return addresses, so the only way to find out who the sender 
is is to open the letter.