Fidelius Charm and the Missing Day (was: DD: an appreciation plus Lupin - again)

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No: HPFGUIDX 97072

Expanding this into another topic because I found myself elaborating..

Ravenclaw Bookworm:
> If Harry was one of the potential 
> subjects of the prophecy, it doesn't make sense for the fidelius 
> charm to quit working when James and Lily are dead but Harry is 
> still alive. Someone knows something and isn't telling!

Jetamors:
It's possible that Peter broke the Charm, instead of simply divulging 
the secret to Voldemort.

It would be more interesting, though, if he did *not* break the 
Charm.  With this theory, the "missing day" was mostly spent trying 
to break the Fidelius Charm.  The rescuers would have assumed that 
Voldemort had eased around it somehow, and Sirius had taken off so 
Voldemort couldn't find him and torture him to reveal the Secret.  
Trying to fit this with the timeline (overview: http://www.hp-
lexicon.org/timelines/timeline_potters2.html#timeline ), that would 
mean that Dumbledore finds the house in ruins and Voldemort's dead 
body late on the 31st or early on the 1st, but doesn't see the 
Potters because he's not in on the Secret.  

He dispatches McGonagall to the Dursley's while he figures out a way 
to break the Charm.  He may have sent someone else to find Sirius 
also, but Sirius can't be reached quickly and/or reliably, and they 
have to break the Charm before Harry dies of starvation or the 
Potters die of any wounds they may have sustained.  (At this point, 
they don't know that Lily and James are dead.)  

Hagrid picks through the ruins and finds Harry once the Charm is 
broken sometime during the day on Nov. 1.  He meets Black shortly 
after and comforts him, gets his motorbike, etc.  Hagrid leaves on 
the bike to take Harry to the Dursley's (a journey that takes several 
hours) while Sirius confronts Peter in the street in late afternoon 
on the 1st.  Late at night, Hagrid finally reaches the Dursley's 
house.  He meets up with McGonagall and Dumbledore, and they set 
Harry on the doorstep.  As soon as they run into other people, Hagrid 
and McGonagall find out about Sirius; Dumbledore may or may not have 
known depending on what he was doing through the day.

That a plausible explanation?