Fidelius Charm

johnbowman19 jhnbwmn at hotmail.com
Thu Feb 12 21:49:22 UTC 2004


No: HPFGUIDX 90844

Corinth:
> Dumbledore suggested the use of the Fidelius charm, but I don't 
> believe he was the one to actually cast it.  I've always assumed 
> that Lily and James cast it themselves.  It's stated several times 
> that only Lily, James, Sirius, and Peter knew that Peter was the 
> Secret Keeper, so if a third party was needed to cast the spell, I 
> assume Sirius would have been the one to do so.
> 
> The Potters told Dumbledore that they were going to use Sirius as 
> their Secret Keeper, and they never told him of the later switch.  
> Therefore, he had no way of knowing that Sirius was innocent.


Thanks Corinth for pointing that out. I just assumed that because it 
was an immensely complex spell, that the natural person to do it 
would be DD because he is so powerful. It would be possible for 
James and Lily to do it they because Lily was very good at charms. 

thanks
John






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