Secret Keepers/JKR Poll Question

[rosered2318]

No: HPFGUIDX 148594

--- 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."  


Rose:

What I am wondering is even if killing the secret keeper just buries 
the secret, can the Fidelius Charm still be broken?  She did not 
mention anything about breaking the Fidelius Charm.  In OotP, Sirius 
mentions that his mother's portrait was stuck to the wall with a 
permanent sticking charm, but that they were working on getting it 
down.  Since a spell that is "permanent" can be broken, can one as 
complex as the Fidelius Charm be broken as well?  

JK mentions in the poll question that "even if [someone]... is force-
fed Veritaserum or placed under the Imperius Curse" it will not be able 
to be divulged.  Is the same true for a Legilimens?  One theory on the 
redhen's website (http://www.redhen-publications.com/Pettigrew.html) is 
that Voldemort gained access to the Potter's hiding place by reading 
Pettigrew's mind (sorry Professor Snape, but I couldn't think of 
another phrase).  Did JKR specifically avoid using this example?  Is 
this one of the ways to break the Fidelius Charm?  And if so, can it 
only be used on the Secret Keeper, or can it be used on anyone the 
secret has been divulged to?  And if it can be broken this way, can it 
be broken other ways as well?  

Questions...Questions...of course it could all be defunct because maybe 
spells cannot be broken in the Potterworld.



Rose