Fidelius Charm

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No: HPFGUIDX 90992

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "johnbowman19" <jhnbwmn at h...> 
wrote:
> I have been re-reading PoA and a new thought occurred to me. DD 
> performed the Fidelius Charm right? Why wouldn't he testify to 
> clear Black's name? DD presumably would know who the secret keeper 
> is, because it is necessary to the Charm to have a secret keeper. 
> If DD can clear Snape's name by testifying why can he not clear 
> Sirius' name? DD should have testified as soon as Sirius was 
caught. 
> Why did he not? There may have been the problem of all the people 
> Peter killed, but Sirius could have explained about MWPP's 
> transformations. Surely a life sentence in Azkaban would have been 
> more than enough reason to expose his illegal transformations and 
> his friends. Sorry if this has been discussed before, if so then 
> someone please tell me how to find the previous conversation. 


Maybe Dumbledore didn't know! Maybe you could have a long series of 
people, each knowing the next in line, but no-one beyond, and the 
last be the secret-keeper, if the first is the person proforming it.


                 Elihu