Secret Keepers/JKR Poll Question

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No: HPFGUIDX 148556

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "spotsgal" <Nanagose at ...> 
wrote:
>
> 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?
> 

***I'm actually wondering how is Harry going to make it to Godric's 
Hollow... Even if we assume that he was somehow told GH's location 
when he was a baby, and that he'll be able to find it, we'd still 
have that Ron and Hermione won't be able to "see" it.  That wouldn't 
be much of a problem, I guess, but Voldemort and Wormtail know where 
GH is... I'm now wondering if Harry's spontaneous idea to visit GH 
at the end of HBP was not another idea 'induced' by Voldemort, a la 
Sirius' kidnap...

Marcela