12 Grimauld Place and the Invisibility Cloak

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No: HPFGUIDX 138151

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, Fabian Peng Kärrholm 
<fabian.peng-karrholm at c...> wrote:
> >Jody:
> >
> >Dumbledore was the secret keeper for 12 Grimauld Place, what 
happened when
> >he died? There must have been some kind of back up plan in place 
to keep it
> >hidden or is it a case of once the magic is set in place, it must 
be
> >deliberately removed?
> > 
> 
> 
> The secret is probably not a secret anymore. The thing is, if 
Dumbledore 
> can be the secret keeper of 12 GP, why couldn't James or Lily, or 
even 
> Harry for that matter be the secret keeper of Godric's Hollow? 
It's not 
> really consistent.
> 
> Fabian

Maybe because they weren't secret keepers in the first place? 
Wormtail was the keeper and as soon as he betrayed their secret it 
naturally ceased being one. Simple as that. 

Again, since Dumbledore did not betray his secret I suppose it still 
stays secret. That's why Sirius said that Wormtail should have died 
rather than betrayed Lilly and James: had he chosen death he would 
have taken the secret to his grave, the Potters would have lived, 
Harry wouldn't have been orphaned and there would have been no story 
for us to read. 

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