Marietta

[dumbledore11214]

No: HPFGUIDX 176856

> 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.

Alla:

I judge the spell how IMO it was supposed to work and IMO it was 
supposed to work quite fine. I said it many times before I would 
certainly prefer Hermione figuring out the jinx that would not allow 
traitor to speak **at all**, but I disagree that disallowing the 
traitor to do it over and over was a good idea as well. I agree with 
Lanval, seems that Hermione learned from Pettigrew story to me.

Yeah, you do not want alarm going off as the fire department as 
leaving, but fire can happen only once, if god forbid it will happen 
with disastrous consequences) Second time there would be no house to 
burn, it will be already burned out. What if the alarm goes off when 
**some sort of damage** is done already, but you can still save a 
part of your belongings?

Would you not prefer that to alarm not going off at all?

> 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.

Alla:

You mean Secret Keeper? Or something different? How would that even 
work? Don't DA has to go in deep hiding for that?

JKR could not be consistent for bigger occasions to use Secret 
Keeper Spell, I would imagine she did not want to do it for DA, if 
for nothing else but not to downplay its significance in the series.

IMO of course.