Fidelius and Peer pressure

[ellecain]

No: HPFGUIDX 140438

<saraquel_omphale at y...> wrote:
> It's a question of what is 
> charmed, the house or the Potters? I'm inclined to think that it
was 
> the house.  Pettigrew charmed the house, using the Fidelius, 
hence, 
> as the caster, he still had access to its whereabouts.  Once the 
> house is destroyed, the charm is broken and just like magic, 
anyone 
> who ever knew where GH was can remember/find it again.  I have no 
> doubt that DD was the one who suggested in the first place, that
the 
> Potter's hide at GH.
> 

Elyse: I think it is the inhabitants rather than the house that is 
charmed. Didnt someone in PoA say Voldemort couldnt find the potters 
even if he had his nose pressed to the living room window?
In order to do that he would have been able to find the house, but 
not the people in it.

> Elyse:
> The Slytherin gang doesnt cut it with me. I see them as the
> peer pressure exerted to use the Dark Arts.

>Valky:
>I don't know how that conclusion can be drawn, to be honest. We have
>it on a decent enough authority that Snape came to Hogwarts already
>deeply interested in Dark Arts. And after HBP, we have gotten all 
>the
>confirmation we need about it haven't we? Snape speaks of Dark Arts 
>in
> loving tone, he invents curses of a highly insidious nature. 

>His Dark Arts interest is of his own volition, the impetus is *in
>Snape himself*. With so much evidence against it, peer pressure
>doesn't cut it for me.

Elyse: Actually, what I meant was not pressure to use the Dark Arts.
I believe Sirius was right when he said Snape came to school with a
deep interest in and good working knowledge of the Dark Arts.
I'm just sorry that the friends he made did not discourage this 
fascination. I 'm willing to bet they egged him on even more and 
laughed like Peter did when he used them.
So Snape who had no social skills to begin with found a way of 
making friends through the Dark arts.
I'm not saying there were  no other examples he could have followed.
He knew what he was doing, he knew it was wrong. I 'm just 
disappointed no one AFAWK tried to push him way fronm this Dark arts 
tendency. Peer pressure in favour of the Dark arts to an already 
fascinated kid who lacked social skills and was probably insecure, 
did nothing to help, though, you must admit.