Secret Keeper

[Maria]

No: HPFGUIDX 56748


--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "aja_1991" <aja_1991 at y...> 

> Actually, something bothers me more than this about the whole 
Secret 
> Keeper situation, beyond just who and who wasn't the Secret Keeper.
> 
> The people who knew about the switch of Secret Keeper were:
> (1) James Potter
> (2) Lily Potter
> (3) Peter Pettigrew
> (4) Sirius Black
> (5) Voldemort (through Pettirgrew)
> and...
> (6) Whoever cast the Fidelius Charm
> 
> I think I've always just intuitively assumed that Lily cast the 
> charm... you know, Ollivander telling Harry how her wand was great 
> for Charm work.
> 

"kiricat2001" added:
I'm not convinced you can say definitely that Lily did not cast the 
charm.  The question of whether the charm's subject can also cast it 
is unknown.  However, people can cast charms on themselves - Cedric 
used the Bubble-Head charm on himself in the 2nd Task.  Maybe only a 
truly gifted Charms practitioner would be able to cast a difficult 
Charm such as Fidelius on themselves.  Was Lily that good?  We don't 
know definitively, so we can't rule her out.

Somehow, the thought that only the original four (James, Lily, Peter 
and Sirius) knew about the switch makes me feel more comfortable with

my interpretation of the story. Sirius never mentions anyone else 
knowing about the Switch. It doesn't feel right to think that there 
was another person involved, because that, to me, dilutes the impact 
of Peter's treachery. The waters get muddied if, not only was Peter a

traitor, but the potential #6 also was evil enough to let Sirius take

the fall for what happened. 

Now me:

I prefer to think that DD did cast the Fidelius Charm, but that the
person casting the charm didn't need to know who the Secret Keeper
was, to make it 100% safe, ie Voldie would not be able to get the
name from DD if he tried, as he wouldn't know. I mean, the charm
could involve something like having those on who the charm is applied
to be thinking of their secret keeper, or to do something with the
secret keeper's name (like write it down and put the paper somewhere
or burn it...). So only the persons trying to be hiden and the secret
keeper would know for certain, and adding more people to the list of
those who know would make the charm less efficient. Of course, they
could share that information with the charmer if they trusted so, but
it was not required. 

Lily might have been too, i don't reject that possibility. But every
time i read that part i always had the impression that DD had been
the one performing the Fidelius Charm. What i always understood is
that DD had suggested the idea of hiding that way, suggested even
Sirius as secret keeper, everyone agreed, and then in the last minute
the Potters decide to think of someone else as their Secret Keeper.

Maria, hoping her point, though confusing, was clear enough

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