Secret Keeper

[rane_ab]

No: HPFGUIDX 56712

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "greatlit2003" <hieya at h...> 
wrote:
> Hi everyone..I noticed something unusual in PoA...Sirius said that 
> the Potters had switched their Secret-Keeper at the last 
minute...we 
> were led to assume that they did this because Sirius was an easy 
> target for Voldemort (it was well known that he was close to 
> James)...but, Dumbledore later told Hermione and Harry that he had 
> testified to the Ministry that Black had been the Potters' Secret 
> Keeper (during that frantic conversation in the hospital wing). 
> Dumbledore DID NOT KNOW about the switch. Why would the Potters 
keep 
> something so big a secret from him unless they suspected that he 
was 
> not as good as he seemed? Why didn't they use him as their secret 
> keeper? I wonder whether the switch was because of the threat of 
> Voldemort or Dumbledore. Sorry if this has been discussed already. 
> I'd love to hear your responses anyway.
> 

As to DD not knowing about Peter being the secret-keeper - what's the 
point in getting a Secret Keeper if you're going to tell everybody 
who it is? Makes the person in question an "easy target" indeed. I'd 
say it was safest for as little people as possible to know who the 
Secret Keeper is. After all, even if, as Steve mentioned, LV 
can't "beat" or whatever the secret itself out of Sirius, he *could* 
make Sirius admit Peter was the Secret Keeper, couldn't he? Which 
would be making it a lot easier on LV. So, really, it's best if as 
little people as possible know who is the actual Secret Keeper. So, 
even if it is unlikely that LV would get his hands on Dumbledore, 
well, why take the risk? 
Also, we don't know just how close DD and the Potters were. Of 
course, DD suggested being a Secret Keeper himself, but, well, I 
think he'd do that for everyone. So maybe the Potters *didn't* know 
DD that well, and simply didn't feel the need to tell him (and burden 
him with yet another secret). This is a bit lame, I know.

Sth just hit me, writing this. Apparently, the Secret Keeper can't be 
inside the actual "Secret place". Why could't Sirius hide out with 
the Potters? Better yet, why not make Lilly or James their own Secret 
Keepers? Their secret would surely be safe then! This strikes me as a 
bit weird. Though it's probably been discussed before (I can't 
imagine any new ideas are coming forth on this forum imagining how 
much has already been discussed! But I'm supposing I'm not the only 
one relatively new here, and who hasn't read about 95% of the msgs).


Well,  just a bit of my (indeed humble) opinion.

Rane.