Secret Keepers/JKR Poll Question

[spotsgal]

No: HPFGUIDX 148527

JKR has answered her FAQ Poll question!  It seems as though, as many
of us have predicted, when a Secret-Keeper dies, the "secret dies with
them."  Meaning that 12GP is still supposedly safe for the Order
(although nothing stops an ESE!Snape from bursting in himself and
doing some damage).  This is really the only thing that makes sense;
after all, the whole idea of the Fidelius charm is a bit silly if your
secret can be broken by the Secret-Keeper getting run over by a bus or
something.  Where is the challenge in figuring out the identity of the
Secret Keeper and getting the information from him when all the enemy
has to do is kill a bunch of people?  In that case, Voldemort would
have been able to find the Potters easily by just killing all of their
friends.  That's the beauty of the FC - you *can't* just go around
killing all of the possible SK's, because then you'd *never* find the
secret, lest you kill the SK by accident.  Even though (forgetting
PP's status as a DE for a second) Voldemort would have been trying to
capture Sirius, or whoever he thought the Potters' SK was, the FC
would have afforded Sirius some protection in battle, since it would
have been a big no-no to let him die.  (Although it was said that
Sirius was going into hiding himself, which I still find sort of odd.)

And I still wonder what happens to a secret if the secret itself
dies...that is, did the charm on the Potters break when *they* died
(although Harry was still alive)?  Or if the charm was more on the
house, did it break when the house was destroyed?

Christina