Why did the Potters have a Secret Keeper at all? Why not just hide?

[Melanie L Ellis]

No: HPFGUIDX 57170

The standard apology if this has been covered ad nauseum, I'm fairly new
here:

I was thinking about the whole Potters/Secret Keeper thing. Why did they
need a Secret Keeper at all? Why not just run away and hide, covering
their tracks with various Unplottable spells and similar things? Then
there would be nobody to betray them. (Okay, and no story either, shoot
me! <G>) Lily grew up as a Muggle, so they should be able to blend right
in no matter where they lived. I'd be interested in theories.

Here's mine:

I think Prof. Trelawney and the centaurs predicted that Harry would be
the downfall of LV. Since the centaurs also "saw" it, DD took it
seriously. Either the prediction was vague enough that they had no idea
when this would take place, or else there were some specifics that would
have to play out before the downfall would occur. So DD and/or the MoM
would need to be able to get hold of the Potters at some point to bring
Harry into the mix to bring about the downfall of LV. I'm sure they were
hoping it was going to be later rather than sooner, for the sake of
Harry, it just didn't work out that way. So - since DD and/or the MoM
would need to be able to contact the Potters, they needed to have that
one link open, the Secret Keeper. When the time came, they would be able
to ask him where the Potters were hiding, and they could go get them and
bring out Harry to battle LV. (Or ask the Secret Keeper to go get them.)
Of course, they had no way of knowing that the Secret Keeper was going to
be the big loophole in the whole thing and destroy everything they worked
so hard for. And LV was fool enough to think that he could balk the
prediction by going after a baby and got himself zapped for his trouble.

Any other ideas?

Melanie
(Who hopes that Neville's parents do get better - if Harry can't have his
parents back, at least one nice character deserves to be happy!)


Melanie Ellis
Alabama Homeschool Message Board
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