Secret Keepers/JKR Poll Question
Tonks
tonks_op at yahoo.com
Tue Feb 21 21:24:41 UTC 2006
No: HPFGUIDX 148536
In her answer to the FAQ poll, JKR said "Just in case you have
forgotten exactly how the Fidelius Charm works, it is
"an immensely complex spell involving the magical concealment of a
secret inside a single, living soul. The information is hidden
inside the chosen person, or Secret-Keeper, and is henceforth
impossible to find -- unless, of course, the Secret-Keeper chooses
to divulge it" (Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban)
In other words, a secret (eg, the location of a family in hiding,
like the Potters) is enchanted so that it is protected by a single
Keeper (in our example, Peter Pettigrew, a.k.a. Wormtail).
Thenceforth nobody else not even the subjects of the secret
themselves can divulge the secret."
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I don't know if we have ever pursued this line of thought before.
In light of the above from JKR, could it be possible that Harry
himself is a Secret Keeper? Maybe all of those nightmares he has
from time to time of the green light and high pitched laugher are
attempts for the secret that he holds to come out now that he is old
enough to understand it.
After all why would JKR bother to remind us of this? She could have
just said "it dies with them" period. There is something about the
way that is phrased which makes me ponder. And it doesn't have to
be a location to be a secret, it could be any secret. Some
connection to the green eyes??
Maybe if Lily worked for the department of mysteries (one reason LV
might have wanted to spare her) she would have know things that
would have been high security secrets. Surely the department would
have had methods to protect that information in the event of the
death of the employee. Maybe they are stored in Harry. OR maybe
Harry himself is the secret and that would mean that he would not be
able to tell (what?)? And there is another keeper of that secret.
Any thoughts?
Tonks_op
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