Changes to JKR official site - or bad memory?
Grace Donaldson
goodgracious at juno.com
Tue Jul 15 05:09:02 UTC 2008
No: HPFGUIDX 183696
I thought for sure that a year ago I got two ideas from JKR's
official website:
1) It was highly unadvisable to make any living creature a horcrux,
and impossible to make a *person* a horcrux, and
2) In the Fidelius Charm, if the Secret Keeper dies (oh blin - was
it the Secret Keeper or the subjects of the FC? oh dear; I wish I
could find where I read this!), the secret dies with him/her -- and
I thought she explicated this further by saying that no one new
could be brought into the secret. This one seemed to be written
post-PoA, as no reference was made to DD being secret keeper for the
OP HQ. (Two problems: if she actually said this, there are problems
for at least one of the FCs we know about: How could everyone find
the Potters' house in Godric's Hollow, since PP was still alive?
Unless, of course, it is that if the *subjects* die, then the charm
breaks and everyone can find the hidden location. Second problem:
was Hermione just plain wrong, and created greater difficulties than
necessary, because she couldn't actually bring Yaxley into 12GP?)
I remember studying her website last year before DH came out, and
while I wasn't a member of this group, I was formulating theories of
what would happen in the final book. Some of my theories were based
on what I *thought* was canon. Now I can't find these two points on
her site. Did I actually read these things on her website, or did I
read them somewhere else (eg, an interview on Mugglenet), or did an
imposter write them, and I believed she actually said these things?
Does anyone else recall reading these two explanations, and if so,
where?
Thanks,
yraiym
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