[HPforGrownups] Re: New Inconsistency - Shell Cottage

[Meliss9900 at aol.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 176330

In a message dated 8/27/2007 7:03:17 P.M. Central Daylight Time,  
jlnbtr at yahoo.com writes:

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'
 
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My impression when I was initially reading the book was that the  Fidelius 
Charm was placed AFTER they showed up at Shell Cottage not  before.  That is 
still my impression after just this moment re-reading  it.
 
As they are burying Dobby, Harry turns around and notices the others have  
all come out to the grave.  Bill is noted as wearing a traveling  cloak.  After 
the burial, Harry remains to add the headstone and as he  enters Shell 
cottage, Bill appears to be telling the others where and  what he has been doing.
 
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". . .lucky that Ginny's on holiday. If she'd been at Hogwarts, they could  
have taken her before we reached her. Now we know she's safe too."
 
And 
 
"I've been getting them all out of the burrow." he explained "moved them to  
Muriel's. The Death Eater's know Ron's with you now, they're bound to  target 
the family -- don't apologize, " he added at the sight of Harry's  expression. 
"it was always a matter of time, Dad's been saying so for months.  We're the 
biggest blood traitor family there is."
 
"How are hey protected?" Harry asked
 
"Fidelius Charm. Dad's Secret-Keeper. And we've done it on this cottage  too; 
I'm Secret-Keeper here."
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All of this IMO sounds as if it were just happening. Bill's wearing a  
traveling cloak and telling everyone that he's been moving the family to  Muriel's 
and is glad that Ginny's on Holiday.  He notes that the D.Es know  that Ron is 
with Harry now, which until Malfoy Manor they didn't. (they thought  he was at 
the burrow with  Spattergroit.   Arthur has been  expecting something to 
happen for months.  Also if the Fidelius had  been cast before then Ron wouldn't 
have known how to get to Shell Cottage when  he left Harry and Hermione in the 
woods.  
 
JMO
 
Melissa



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