[HPforGrownups] Re: Secret Keepers/JKR Poll Question

[Tammy Rizzo]

No: HPFGUIDX 148541

> JES:
> We know Dumbledore was the secret keeper for the Order.
> Dumbledore had to tell each order member where HQ was
> or they could not find it, and no other member can
> tell anyone else where the secret HQ is.

April now:

And how did Harry use the fireplace to contact Sirius only to get Kreacher,
when he shouldn't have been able to yell out 12 Grimmauld place into the
Floo????  Wasn't that the reason in the first place for the two way mirror??
Is it that they CAN'T say the location, or shouldn't??  Moody told Harry not
to say it out loud, then burned the paper with the location on it.  But I
thought they couldn't say the location at all, that the spell prevented it.

April
 
Now Tammy adds:
 
I think the Fidelius Charm doesn't necessarily prevent anyone from, oh,
saying, "12 Grimmauld Place", as much as it prevents anyone from connecting
the address with the Order's whereabouts.  Like, if you were to ask Harry,
"Where does the Order meet?", he wouldn't be able to say anything about
twelve, or Grims, or old places, because someone might be able to divine the
secret that way.  However, if he were to tell someone, "Come on over to my
house, I'm having a Christmas party," then he would be able to answer that
his place is 12 GP, just so long as the Order wasn't involved, AS the Order,
in the party.  It would depend upon the purpose of the information. If
someone were trying to share the information normally contained within the
SK, but for a reason not connected to the secret, then it would most likely
be quite easy to say that information.  You wouldn't be divulging the
secret, because the info wouldn't be connected with the secret in the
hearer's mind.
 
Oh, does any of this make sense to anyone, or am I just rambling again?
 
Tammy Rizzo
ms-tamany at rcn.com 


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