New Inconsistency - Shell Cottage

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No: HPFGUIDX 176318

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Steve" <bboyminn at ...> wrote:
>
> When Harry, Ron, Hermione, etc... arrive at Shell 
> Cottage, Bill informs them that there is a Secret Keeper
> charm on the place. Yet, Ron mentions it earlier, 
> actually mentions Shell Cottage a couple of times,
> and when Harry arrives with Dobby, Harry can see the
> cottage in the distance. 
> 
> Are we seeing a mistake or are we seeing a new variation
> of the Charm. Are there aspect of the Fidelius Charm that
> we are unaware of, or did JKR simply over look a few 
> details. 
> 
> For the record, mistake or not, it didn't distract
> from my reading at all. I'm on my fourth read and just
> now noticed it.
> 
> Steve/bboyminn
>
Juli
You read my mind Steve, I was just thinking of posting that same 
paragraph ;)

I do think it's a mistake. When Ron returns to Harry & Hermione, he 
says that Bill and Fleur are living in the Shell Cottage. Unless Bill 
also made him a secret keeper, he wouldn't be able to say that, 
right? He would have been able to say he was at Bill and Fleur's or 
that he was at teh Shell Cottage, not to actually say that 'Bill and 
Fleur live at the Shell Cottage'. AFAWK, Harry and Hermione didn't 
know this, so they couldn't discuss it. And even less possible that 
Ollivander, Luna, and was it Dean? could have been let in on the 
secret.

I can only come up with one explanation, not a good one, but still. 
Since they are apparated there by Dobby, Dobby is able to bypass the 
wizarding rules and get there. There are many cons to this theory: If 
a Fidelius-hidden place can be accessed by an Elf, Voldemort would 
have used any elf to get to teh Potters before Pettigrew betrayed 
them, also he would have been able to get to 12GP, to the Weasleys, 
and God knows how many other places kept hidden by the Fidelius 
Charm. Harry was able to tell Dobby where to apparate them, again how 
could he have done that if he wasn't the SK?

Nothing about it makes sense. Unless the SK thing doesn't work 
on 'good' people. To me it's a Flinch, until I hear a better 
explanation than mine.

Juli