Secret Keepers/JKR Poll Question

[Tonks]

No: HPFGUIDX 148644

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "allies426" <AllieS426 at ...> 
wrote:
> 
> 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.
>

Tonks:

Oh, now I am confused more than ever!!  Isn't the secret and the 
fact that a location is hidden from view two seperate things? 12 
Grimmauld Place is invisible because of all the spells placed on it 
by old Mr. Black, not because it is a secret headquarters for the 
Order. The fact that it is a secret headquarters is the secret, but 
the spells and charms that keep it unplotable is something else 
total seperate from the secret that DD held. Right?

Tonks_op