MuggleNet - Godrics Hollow Theory. General vs Specific

[esmith222002]

No: HPFGUIDX 163581

A little bit of canon -

"An immensely complex spell involving the magical concealment of a 
secret inside a single, living soul. The information is hidden inside 
the chosen person, or Secret-Keeper, and is henceforth impossible to 
find -- unless, of course, the Secret-Keeper chooses to divulge it" 
(PA10). 

"As long as the Secret-Keeper refused to speak, You-Know-Who could 
search the village where Lily and James were staying for years and 
never find them, not even if he had his nose pressed against their 
sitting room window!" (PA10) 

"When a Secret-Keeper dies, their secret dies with them, or to put it 
another way, the status of their secret will remain as it was at the 
moment of their death. Everybody in whom they confided will continue 
to know the hidden information, but nobody else... 

And a couple of quotes from JKR - 

"In other words, a secret (e.g., the location of a family in hiding, 
like the Potters) is enchanted so that it is protected by a single 
Keeper (in our example, Peter Pettigrew, a.k.a. Wormtail). 
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)." 


MA: Was there anyone else present in Godric's Hollow the night 
Harry's parents were killed? 
JKR: No comment.

Brothergib;
The first piece tends to suggest that the Secret Keeper can divulge 
the location to anyone and the secret will remain intact. I'm not 
sure it is a loyalty issue, but as it says it is a complex spell, I 
suppose it can't be discounted. 

The first quote proves that only the secret keeper can divulge the 
info i.e. DD could not tell anyone (even via a scrap of paper) unless 
PP had given him permission to do so.

What has always confused me is how anyone could find Harry! PP was 
still alive and therefore the Charm was still in place. Therefore 
noone would be able to find Harry in the rubble.

My theory - 
SS was with LV on that night, although he was not privvy to the 
secret (since LV could not tell him). SS was aware that something 
catastrophic has happened (after all the house is destroyed), and may 
even have found LV in the rubble - he wouldn't be able to find the 
Potters however. SS contacts DD. DD knows the Potters are there, but 
probably wasn't directly told by PP. Perhaps the missing 24h involved 
DD attempting to break through the Charm in an attempt to locate 
Harry/Lily/James.

Brothergib