Thursday, April 06, 2006

Secret Keepers and their secrets (HP info)

I got this cool info from http://www.the-pensieve.org/
This question is from a F.A.Q poll. I found the question interesting and decided to post it on my blog.

What happens to a secret when the Secret-Keeper dies?

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.

The Fidelius Charm 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.

4 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

hey kkm! so u finally put somethin about HP!! yay! gr8 u like my new layout! so.. this secret keeper things pretty interesting, u know! do u mind if i put it up??? on me site?
buh byez

4:01 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

hey! this is mrs rad [divorced] but im too lazy to rite my url again. so its me k? im not a hater. hehe don worry
im not a hater! sorry abt all those hate comments. hmm.. wonder hu is is! well please reply ON MY SITE if i can use ur info... hehe.. nly on my site.. buh byez :P

4:15 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

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MRS RADCLIFFE [divorced :P] hehe

im planiin a new layout.. um.. any ideas??

10:19 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

heya kkm! ooo.. i luv my report! its undoubtedly d best report ive eva eva eva had! tehe. ooo! i got merits in all 7 subjects.. go me! *egotistic* yea i noe. reply on my site blog! cyaz!
Mrs Radcliffe [divorced :P]

11:43 AM  

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