Marietta

[Ceridwen]

No: HPFGUIDX 176849

Lanval;
> Absolutely yes. It was desigend to warn the DA not only that they 
> had been betrayed (granted, only if there was enough time, which in 
> the actual event was not the cause), but also by *whom*. No one 
> could have foreseen the precise way in which the betrayal took 
place.

Ceridwen:
The spell didn't warn the DA.  The spell only told them who had 
broken peace.  They were caught.  They were dragged to Dumbledore's 
office.  Their names were captured on the parchment hanging on the 
wall.  They were not warned.  They were alerted after the fact.  
Since we're going for superlatives where this incident is concerned, 
if my house catches on fire, I don't want the alarms going off as the 
fire department is leaving.

Lanval:
*(snip)*
> Liplock spell? Nice idea. For how long? A day? The end of the 
school 
> year? Forever? Will it have to go hand in hand with a ...handlock 
> spell? Because I'm pretty sure Marietta and every other student is 
> able to write. 
> 
> Lanval, smiling at the thought of the sheer amount of angry 
> responses here, had Marietta been struck mute and unable to 
> write. 

Ceridwen:
How about a spell that makes it impossible for the person to divulge 
the secret?  I think there *might* be an obscure spell in canon which 
allows this, and I'm pretty sure that - in the middle of *HP & The 
Order of the Phoenix*, whose headquarters is protected by such a 
spell, which was introduced at the beginning of this same book - 
Hermione just *may* have heard of it by the time the students meet at 
the Hog's Head to form the DA halfway through this book.

Ceridwen.