Changes to JKR official site - or bad memory?

yraiym goodgracious at juno.com
Tue Jul 15 21:11:41 UTC 2008


No: HPFGUIDX 183703

> bboyminn:
> 
> The JKR website response can be read here -
> 
> http://www.jkrowling.com/textonly/en/faq_poll.cfm
> 
> This (Fidelius Charm problems) has been discussed before, 

yraiym:
Okay, I have been wading through several years of discussion to find 
pertinent posts, and found that it was a pretty hot topic just three 
weeks ago (Sorry to be such a noob: I only joined up a week ago). To 
my relief, I can still add something to the discussion, though 
several things have been cleared up for me in previous discussions.

bboyminn:
> She is perfectly able to tell partial truths or even misleading
> truths. Here statement on the Secret Keeper refers to a specific
> moment in time - "...remain as it was at the moment of their 
> death". That doesn't mean that more details can't come to light
> AFTER the moment of death. 

yraiym:
You have hinted at these other details in other posts.  One 
possibility that has been tossed up for consideration is that the 
information still existed in writing (as Harry learned of the 
location the OP in OotP), and so could be passed on in that way.  

Let me propose another possibility: though this is NOT on the page, 
Dumbledore could have prepared the FC in such a way on 12GP, or 
changed it during the course of HBP such that, when he died (or even 
when Sirius died!), all those in on the secret became SKs.  There is 
no canon that I know of to support this, but is this the sort of 
thing you have in mind, the "as it was at the moment of their death"?

from the post 
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPforGrownups/message/183412
bboyminn wrote:
As to Hermione bringing Yaxley inside the bounds of the
Fidelius, how is that a conflict. Where willful of not,
she still brought someone inside the bound and thereby
revealed the secret. Although, this is never really proven.

yraiym:
Good point, and one I had noticed.  It is quite possible that Mr. 
Weasley and Hermione are wrong: the OP have NOT become SKs.  So, 
when Hermione brings Yaxley along, and notices on the doorstep that 
his grip loosened, she was wrong in attributing it to him thinking 
they had arrived at their destination.  It is just possible that he 
was magically forced out of the bounds of 12GP, as Hermione did not 
have the ability to let him in on the secret.  I think this seems 
very plausible, as it's one of those classic kind of 
misunderstandings that leads to a more complicated plot: "If only 
they had realized that they had not become SKs, they wouldn't have 
needed to camp out!  Ron wouldn't have been splinched!  They would 
have been well-fed!  Etc."  But then a big chunk of the book falls 
out (I know, to the relief of many: but how else would Snape send 
them the sword, to be heroically retrieved by Harry and Ron?).

My 2 cents, 
yraiym







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