[HPforGrownups] Peter, Sirius and Secret Keeping (was: Re: Dumbledore's Spies)

[Iggy McSnurd]

No: HPFGUIDX 81733

I think everyone's missing a few important facts about why Hagrid, Sirius,
McGonagall, and Dumbledore knew where the Potter's lived, and why there was
no dager of people finding the information out from them:

1 - Only the person who is the secret keeper can reveal the information.
Even the people the keeper tells can't pass the information on at all.

2 - Hagrid, Sirius, McGonagall, and Dumbledore were all members of the Order
of the Phoenix.

3 - It's logical that Peter would have told a few members of the OotP, even
despite his alleigence to LV.  As crafty as he is, Peter would have realized
that by telling a few others "just in case" would have drawn even more
suspicion away from him when things did go down.  When all is said and done,
one of Peter's first goals is to avoid blame and suspicion.

4 - I would also assume that, while the keeper of the secret keeps it safe
so long as they are alive, if the people who's location is protected are
killed, then the spell would break as well.  (The spell would need both the
keeper and the kept to be alive, wouldn't it?  That is, if the kept is a
person rather than a place.)


Comments?  Dissentions?

Iggy McSnurd
the Prankster


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