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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