Fidelius Charm - Godric's Hollow Destroyed

[wynnleaf]

No: HPFGUIDX 158319

Carol 
> > For reasons I've stated elsewhere, I don't think that Snape was at
> > Godric's Hollow or that he knew the location. Had Pettigrew told 
> him
> > the secret, which is extremely unlikely, he would have told 
> Dumbledore
> > who the Secret Keeper was
> 
> wynnleaf
> I agree that Snape definitely thought Sirius was the Secret Keeper.  
> If not, he was a magnificent impromptu actor in the Shrieking Shack 
> in POA.  However -- here's another wild theory -- suppose Sirius and 
> Peter, in an attempt to make the ruse of the switched Secret Keeper 
> seem real, polyjuiced Peter into Sirius to pass along the Secret to 
> whoever needed to know?  Just a wild theory, I know, except that it 
> would help explain why even those closest to Sirius thought he was 
> definitely the Secret Keeper.  The other idea of course is the note 
> theory.  After all, if Harry could learn a Fidelius Charm secret 
> through a note from Dumbledore, couldn't Peter pass along the secret 
> through a note that could be shared around on a need-to-know basis?  
> Do we know, after all, that he'd have to sign it for it to work?  We 
> may assume this, but it is not definite canon.

wynnleaf
Now that I've had an opportunity to look it up, it becomes quite clear
that Dumbledore did not sign the note that Order members handed Harry
to read in order to get into 12 Grimmauld Place.  So that's all the
canon proof we need that the Secret Keeper can write a note giving
away the secret location, without a signature, and not even be there
when people read the note -- and the secret is still transferred to
the reader of the note.

wynnleaf -- who thinks any Order member or DE could potentially have
read an unsigned note written by Pettigrew, even one that changed
hands, and never know that Pettigrew was the Secret Keeper.