Seeing magical concealment

Ceridwen ceridwennight at hotmail.com
Sun Nov 27 15:40:10 UTC 2005


No: HPFGUIDX 143539

le green dragon:
> Is Harry's parents home still magically concealed?  With the 
> secret keeper still alive, and with one of the three people whose 
> secret it was still alive, the house should be invisible to all 
> except those whom Pettigrew has told the secret.  So how did 
> Hagrid get Harry from the wreckage?  Unless of course it was only 
> James and Lilly's secret, in which case the spell was broken when 
> they were killed.
> 
> Now that the secret keeper for 12 Grimauld Place is dead, will 
> it be possible for anyone to find the house, other than those 
> Dumbledore told before?  Or is the killing of the secret keeper 
> the end of the fidelius charm?

Ceridwen:
I was under the impression that once the secret has been breached, 
the charm is broken.  So when LV gets in and kills the Potters, the 
completed act of PP's betrayal breaks the charm.

I could be wrong.

Ceridwen.







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