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No: HPFGUIDX 158300


> Brothergib again:
> From the mouth of JKR herself
> '..Thenceforth nobody else - not even the subjects of the secret 
> themselves - can divulge the secret. Even if one of the Potters had 
> been captured, force-fed Veritaserum or placed under the Imperius 
> Curse, they would not have been able to give away the whereabouts 
of 
> the other two. The only people who ever knew their precise location 
> were those whom Wormtail had told directly, but none of them would 
> have been able to pass on the information (JKR)." 

Potioncat:
Where can that quote be found?  

BrotherGib:
 If we also take JKRs comments above as gospel, it would 
> also suggest that DD did not know where the Potter's were either.

Potioncat:
We know the SK can communicate via note. DD gave the location of 12 
GP to Harry via a note deliverd by Moody. So Peter could have written 
a note for DD, delivered by someone else. DD would know it came from 
the SK, but he would still think the SK was Sirius. Peter could, as I 
said above,  have delivered the note himself and DD would still think 
it had come from Sirius.

Hagrid, who is at GH before Sirius, states that he didnt' know Sirius 
was the SK. So either he was given the location by note without 
knowing who wrote the note at all or he went after the charm was no 
longer in effect. 

I hope JKR is doing a better job of keeping this straight than I am!



> Carol again:
>  > My own belief, based on Snape's statement about James Potter's
> > arrogance in the Shrieking Shack scene in PoA, is that Snape 
tried 
> to
> > warn Potter *before* the Fidelius Charm was in place, that he 
> believed
> > Sirius Black to be the spy and James refused to listen to him
> > (rightly, as it turned out). 
> 
> Brothergib again:
> The problem I have with this is that Lupin states at the end HBP 
that 
> they trusted Snape because DD trusted Snape. This statement 
suggests 
> that the OOTP did not personally witness the double agent role that 
> Snape played during the first war. It makes sense to me that DD 
would 
> not have let the others know that Snape was a double agent - all 
the 
> evidence of DD in these books shows a man who lets people let know 
as 
> little as possible of his furture plans. Therefore, the Potters 
would 
> still regard Snape as the enemy!
> 
> Carol again:
> > 
> > If someone who likes this Invisibility Cloak theory *and* believes
> > that Snape is DDM can reconcile these conflicting elements for me,
> > please do so. 
> 
> Brothergib again:
> It seems likely that when James & Lily decided to go into hiding, 
it 
> is possible that DD may have asked for James cloak so that other 
> members of the order could use it if necessary. Since James would 
be 
> under the Fidelius charm, he would not need it. That seems the 
likely 
> reason why DD had the cloak.
> I do not believe that PP could ever have revealed the location of 
the 
> Potters to SS. However, it is possible that LV may have boasted 
that 
> he was going to prevent the prophecy from occurring. SS may have 
told 
> DD that LV seemed to know where the Potters were and he was going 
to 
> finish them off. Maybe DD gave SS the cloak and asked him to try 
and 
> tail LV.
> The huge problem here is that when LV gets to Godric's Hollow, he 
can 
> enter and attack the Potters, whereas even if Snape manages to 
follow 
> LV, he would not be able to find the Potters, even if he was in 
their 
> house!
>