[HPforGrownups] Secret Keepers (formerly known as Family Secrets)

[Kethryn]

No: HPFGUIDX 116005

moonmyyst said - 

I love this idea but the only problem would be that in the case of Petunia being secret keeper, Harry could not tell someone where he lives and they be able to find it.  This would rule out the twins and Ron in CoS, Arthur, twins and Ron in GoF, and the Advanced Guard in OotP.  There has to be something more to all of this but I do not think that it is secret keeper. 

My son had a thought.  Is there any reason in cannon as to Why a person cannot be their own secret keeper?  We know that they are not but Why?

moonmyyst


Kethryn now -

I'll bite, I don't think that there is a reason listed in canon.  And, now, I'll raise.  Why didn't Lily be James Secret Keeper and James be Lily's?  Other than the fact that Harry would have loving and doting parents now and we would be out a lovable might-as-well-be orphan, that particular scenario makes the most sense to me.  If you want to live, tell the person the secret that you trust the most.  And, you know, if you don't trust your spouse with your life, you have problems.  Maybe the person living in the house can't be the Secret Keeper because that would lock them in some weird parallel dimension thing?  Or a logic loop?  How about a circular argument?

Something like that, at any rate.

Kethryn whose head hurts trying to think of how to explain it better than that without totally ending up in the looney bin.

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