The Order will be moving Headquarters

[pippin_999]

No: HPFGUIDX 97801

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Jim Ferer" 
<jferer at y...> wrote:

> 
> It seems to me that one of JKR's few weaknesses must be an 
abysmal ignorance of "tradecraft," or the art of espionage and 
clandestineoperations.  She really needs to read some John Le 
Carre or /The Cardinal of the Kremlin/ or something.
> 

She may know more than you think:

 (Barnes and Noble chat transcript 1999)

http://www.the-leaky-cauldron.org/quickquotes/articles/1999/099
9-barnesnoble-staff.htm
***
The worst job I ever had was working as a temporary secretary in 
a company that made surveillance equipment. Bugs, infrared 
binoculars...industrial espionage. I spent the whole time reading 
the catalogue. They were very creepy people. The products were 
very interesting, but the people were quite horrible. 
***

 I don't think GP shows poor tradecraft .

Since the  house was already concealed and protected before 
the Secret Keeper spell was placed on it, Narcissa and other old 
family friends would hardly expect to be able to enter or find it 
without an invitation from the householder. It would have been 
inaccessible since the death of Mrs. B.

The Order members coming to Grimmauld Place were mostly in 
disguise. Even if  Voldemort's agents had noticed them in the 
square outside GP,  they  wouldn't be able to  tell whether they 
were vanishing into the house or somewhere else entirely. 

Does the Secret Keeper spell prevent one not initiated from even 
thinking of the secret? It certainly would increase its usefulness. 
In that case, tradecraft is far less necessary.

All that said, I agree that Grimmauld Place has probably outlived 
its usefulness, for literary if not practical reasons. But as a Safe 
House, a place where people who are not supposed to be 
associated with the Order or each other can safely meet, 
Hogwarts would be just as bad as Grimmauld Place. I think we 
will find out instead where Dumbledore went  in the interval that 
he was absent from Hogwarts in Book Five.

 I disagree that the Order's main task in Book Six will be  to 
protect Harry. Harry is the person who *least* needs protection 
from Voldemort. The Order's task will be to expose Voldemort's 
agents and unite the wizarding world.

Pippin