The Fidelus charm, Hagrid and Harry, Back on that Night in Godric's Hollow... |
  Sep 30 2005, 08:44 PM
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Getting Fitted for New Dress Robes  Posts: 58 Joined: 11:25am July 21, 2005 Location: sitting in the headmaster's office waiting for Dumbledore's portrait to wake up  |
OK, so here's something that I thought about tonight when I was watching PS AGAIN with my son.
We all know that the Fidelus charm prevents people from knowing the location of a building unless the secret keeper tells them, either directly or indirectly. Peter Pettigrew was the secret keeper for the Potters. Up until PoA we believe him to be dead, but find out that he is in fact alive. The only people who knew that Peter was the secret keeper were the Potters and Sirius. However, the evening when the Potters were killed Hagrid went to Godric's Hollow and collected Harry from the destroyed house. Would the fidelus charm be functional only in an intact house? If not, then is destruction of the building a means of negating the fidelus? If someone planted a bomb on Snape for example so that it destroyed 12 Grimmauld place would the headquarters for the OoTP be revealed (when it was still the headquarters)? Would this be the reason that JK HAD to destroy the house? The AK spell should not have done it on it's own, but was it necessary so that Hagrid could find Harry? Or is this an oversight/error on JK's part? Or was there someone else there that night who might have helped Hagrid to find Harry? It could not have been Peter, and Sirius wasn't the secret keeper. Perhaps Sirius, their best friend who MUST have been privy to the secret went into the house to get Harry? Any thoughts? -------------------- "Great spirits have often encountered violent opposition from weak minds." - A. Einstein
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