CHAPDISC3: Harry stating the Order's HQ?

[pippin_999]

No: HPFGUIDX 142830

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, Dave Hardenbrook <DaveH47 at m...> wrote:
>
> I have a HBP Chapter 3 Question: Is the following a Flint? --
> 
>   "Our problem," he continued to Harry ... , "is that Sirius also
>    left you number twelve, Grimmauld Place."
> 
>   "He's been left a house?" said Uncle Vernon greedily...
> 
>   "You can keep using it as headquarters," said Harry. "I don't care.
>    You can have it, I don't really want it." Harry never wanted to set
>    foot in number twelve, Grimmauld Place again if he could help it...
> 
>    
> Harry is not Secret-Keeper for the Order, so how can he state in
> front of the Dursleys that 12 Grimmauld Place is headquarters for
> the OotP?  I must admit that I'm still foggy on how the Fidelius Charm
> works anyway...

Pippin:
Harry never mentions the Order, and I suspect that if he did, the 
Dursleys would not have been able to process the information, just as 
Voldemort could have had his nose pressed to the window in Godric's 
Hollow and not seen the Potters inside.

Pippin