Secret Keepers/JKR Poll Question

[allies426]

No: HPFGUIDX 148643

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "kiricat4001" <zarleycat at ...> 
wrote:
> Marianne:
> Didn't the charm break when Peter revealed its contents to 
> Voldemort, thus rendering the SK's protection moot?
>

Allie:

I can't even begin to comment on the complexity of this issue that's 
currently being discussed!  On this one point I can.  Telling the 
secret does not break the Secret Keeper charm.  The little note that 
Harry read from Dumbledore in OoP let him in on the secret, but the 
charm was not broken.  The same would happen when Pettigrew told 
Voldemort the secret of the Potters' whereabouts.  The charm would 
still hold, and Voldemort would be able to find them, but nobody 
else would.  Actually, we don't even know if the charm *can* be 
broken.

I speculate that the charm on the Potters would have read something 
like this, if put into words, "The Potter family is located at [5 
Godric Lane], Godric's Hollow."  That way not only is the location 
secret, but nobody would even be able to see the house, just like 
Harry couldn't see Grimmauld Place until he read DD's note.