[HPforGrownups] Re: Voldemort to Vapormort - How Did They Know?

[catherine higgins]

No: HPFGUIDX 150427



Len Jaffe <orgone9 at yahoo.com> wrote:    > Len:
  As I understand the whole secret keeper thing, the secret is not so much private, as protected from 
spread.  All of the member of the Order know where #12 GP is, but only because the secret keeper told
them.  The charm prevents them from sharing the
knowledge that it is the HQ.

  Catherine:
  But that's my point exactly. Peter would have had to tell everyone where the Potters were to have anyone else present at the time. The only way out of this is that someone like Dumbledore could have known an approximate whereabouts of the Potters, i.e. GH, without the address. And after the distruction of the house, and the Potters, then the secret would no longer need to be kept. If the wording of the secret was "Potters" and that only one "Potter" is left, could that be enough to null and void the secret? Either Peter spread the Potter's whereabouts, which I doubt because that would out him as SK, or someone could know about the general area, and be keeping a lookout. 
   
  I'm not puzzled that Sirius could show up at the house, he was the one who did the spell to make PP the SK in the first place (I imagine), therefore Peter would obviously let Sirius know where they are. It would look totally wierd of he refused to tell Sirius. Hagrid might have been the one in the area with orders already from DD to save Harry if possible and keep him safe. But it still doesn't answer the question of how DD knew exactly what happened that night. Unless it was he who witnessed it, but was unable to prevent it.
   
  Catherine

		
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