Halloween 81 [Re: To Where To When (TimeTurning that may make sense)]

[lorelei3dg]

No: HPFGUIDX 109021

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Cathy Drolet" <cldrolet at s...> 
wrote:
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DD & Hagrid would not have known where to go then.  They 
would have had to wait until later until someone who had been told 
the location told them the Harry had disappeared (or told him the 
location and he discovered Harry was gone).
 
I'm beginning to think that the Fidelius Charm evaporates when the 
house in question is destroyed.  As we've discussed before, even 
those who know the whereabouts of the house are blocked from entering 
by the Fidelius Charm.  <snip>

They have to be specifically told by the Secret-Keeper.  Yet here we 
have Hagrid and Sirius both at the house only a short while after the 
attack... <snip>

DD would have known where the house was because he suggested he be 
the Secret-Keeper himself, he would have 'forgotten' the address, 
once Wormtail was made Secret-Keeper, but once the house was 
destroyed, he would know the address again and therefore be alerted 
to the fact that something had happened there.  Sirius would know by 
the same method (he was James' best friend, he would know where they 
lived, until the Fidelius Charm was performed), then DD only had to 
tell Hagrid so he could go and get Harry.  We don't need DD - or 
anyone else - to find Wormtail and get the address out of him, DD 
already knew.
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Lorel:
It might be simpler than this. Isn't there some comment in OotP that 
even though Harry knew the address of the Order, he would be 
restricted by magic so that he would not be able to mention it to 
people outside the Order? Also, even though DD is the Secret Keeper 
for 12 GP, others know of the address. 

My hunch is that others (DD, Sirius, and Hagrid, at least) did know 
where the Potters were staying in Godric's Hollow, but would not have 
been able to pass that information to anyone who was not "in on" that 
secret - just like the members of the Order in OotP.