Current FAQ Poll

[pippin_999]

--- In the_old_crowd at yahoogroups.com, "Talisman" <talisman22457 at y...> wrote:
>
> Hmmm.  What to do about the FAQ poll. 
> 
> Already-answered question number 3 is obviously a test to see who is 
> sleeping at the wheel. 
> 
> Question 1 is currently in the lead: *What happens to a secret when 
> the Secret-Keeper dies?*
> 
> I'd have thought we had enough information from Book 3, where Sirius 
> admonishes Pettigrew that he should have died rather than reveal the 
> secret.  I would seem from this statement (which appears to be 
> shared by Lupin) that if Pettigrew had chosen to go to his grave 
> with closed lips, the secret (and the Potters) would have remained 
> safe (PoA 375).

Pippin:
That might make things awkward for the Potters in future, though,
even if the deceased SK leaves behind a supply of those handy scraps of paper
with the secret on it. I want to know whether the spell allows for
a successor.


<snip> 
> That leaves question 2.  Yes, I know we've seen the Diary Hx 
> destroyed, but, afterall, it was destroyed with the venomous fang of 
> a rare magical creature--by a boy chock-full of the Hx-maker's 
> essence--and while it's contents was out for a stroll.
> 
> Chucking the Diary in the toilet--generally destructive to books--
> wasn't sufficient.  It's not clear that the Diary Hx--along with 
> it's malignant resident-- would have been destroyed if, say, Ron, 
> had simply tried to rip it up.
> 
> Afterall, why didn't DD deploy a Special Ops team of Order members 
> to find and smash Hxes? Why is he so bent on it being young Harry's 
> solo mission?  

Pippin:
Because Voldemort, besides protecting the diary against fire and water,
would surely have rigged it to curse anyone who succeeded in 
harming it. Yet Harry did so unscathed. Apparently Harry has enough
of Voldemort's magic in him that the enchantments on the Diary 
recognized him as a 'friendly' and didn't go off. Harry also seemed
drawn to the Diary far more than Ron or Hermione, so maybe Dumbledore was
hoping that Harry would be able to recognize horcruxes by this affinity,
an ability that remains untested since the locket horcrux was a fake.

Pippin