How did Sirius find Harry? Confusion!

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No: HPFGUIDX 57488

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "cgbrennan2003" 
<cgbrennan at a...> wrote:
> I don't know if this has already been discussed, since I'm new (so 
> please forgive me) but how did Sirius find Harry?  If, and it seems 
> this is the general consensus, that Arabella Figg is Harry's secret 
> keeper, no one should have been able to find him.  In PofA, p. 205, 
> Fudge explains that the secret "...is henceforth impossible to 
find - 
> unless, of course, the Secret-Keeper chooses to divulge it.  As 
long 
> as the Secret-Keeper refused to speak, You-Know-Who could search 
the 
> village where Lily and James were staying for years and never find 
> them, not even if he had his nose pressed against their sitting 
room window!"
 
   Well, maybe there are some exceptions to that rule. You've got to 
admit, Fudge isn't the best of sources on the matter, incompetant 
windbag that he is. I mean, living as Muggles, Lily and James had to 
interact with the muggle world. Go the store, maintain muggle 
appearances (having a car, doing yardwork, that sort of thing). That 
could be explained off with something like "Oh, the Secret-Keeping 
business doesn't work on muggles because they aren't a danger." or 
something along those lines. But what happens if your Secret Keeper 
gets killed? Does that make it impossible for anyone to find 
you...and in that case how do you do busniess in the Wizarding World, 
or are you sealed away from it forever? The idea that just struck me 
is this - the spell that creates Secret Keepers works specifically 
against the enemies of the people with the secret. However, there's 
no guarantee that the Secret Keeper chosen isn't among that group of 
enemies, and thus we have what happened with Wormtail and the 
Potters. This whole bit is rather confusing to me as well, I admit. -
                            Joe S.