A couple of questions on Horcrux and Secret Keepers

[Cyril Andrew Fernandes]

No: HPFGUIDX 188352


Cyril here:

 

I was doing another re-read of the series - and a question popped up. Not sure if this has been discussed earlier - so thought I would get your thoughts on this.

 

Question 1:

When Dumbledore put on the ring Horcrux, it had a deadly curse that nearly killed him - being only saved by his own "prodigious skill" and Snapes timely intervention. Even then, the curse was just kept at bay, and not eliminated.

 

However, when the Trio put on the Horcrux (which in fact was earlier worn by Umbridge and maybe even Dung, not to mention possibly Kreacher), it did not really impact them in any serious immediate way. Given that it was a Horcrux itself is a cursed object, and it weas not that only the ring had a special curse, why did it not impact any of the wearers like the ring affected DD? As DD comments in King's Cross - he put on the ring forgetting that it was a Horcrux, and hence had a curse, and nearly died.

 

 

Question 2:

The other question links into the FAQ poll that JKR had answered on her website...

 

I am attaching her response here below:

 

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What happens to a secret when the Secret-Keeper dies?
I was surprised that this question won, because it is not the one that I'd have voted for… but hey, if this is what you want to know, this is what you want to know!

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.

Just in case you have forgotten exactly how the Fidelius Charm works, it is 

"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" (Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban)

In other words, a secret (eg, 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.


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If this is the case, then in DH - how could Snape be suspected to be able to pass on the info of the HQ to the DE's - or even for Hermione to be able to reveal the secret - even by accident - to Yaxley.

It looks like the answer given by JKR on her site and part of the DH sub plot are actually contradictory.

 

Your thoughts...
Cyril.






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