Quote:Shepherd wrote:Except Dumbledore didn't become the Secret Keeper for Grimmauld Place, he became Secret Keeper for the Order Headquarters. That this was a Black family residence is unimportant, as it's unclear how the Fidelius works and it's quite possible that even if you previously knew the secret in some way that you are unable to recall it or otherwise able to use it in some manner. It's quite possible that the idea won't come up in anyone who even could come up with it simply because they can't connect 'Secret' with 'what's being kept secret' even through inference, so they would be unable to even try to connect the dots.Quote:ECSNorway wrote:The problem is that Dumbledore went on to become secret-keeper for Grimmauld Place. It wouldn't make sense for him to refuse to become the Potter secret-keeper due to the danger and then become the Black secret-keeper; especially since the Black family's known loyalties make it a virtual certainty that Voldemort knew Grimmauld Place's location before the Fidelius charm was cast.
It also might explain why D'dore didn't want to be the Secret Keeper, if you're assuming non-malicious motives on his part.
He might -know- that SK status can be used to attack someone, and might assume Moldyshorts knows as well... and doesn't want to take the risk. Peter and Sirius, on the other hand, are expendable...
It's also a disservice to both a competent leader of the Light Dumbledore and to Sirius and Pettigrew to describe the latter two as 'disposable.' To put it quite simply, the Potters were major targets (along with the Longbottoms) and quite likely important members of the Order of Phoenix, because if nothing else the Order seems to be pretty damn small. However, while losing the Potters would be a terrible blow for the Light, losing Dumbledore would be a disaster, as both the covert and overt groups fighting Voldemort would have lost their rallying point and leader. He's already a target, that's certainly true, but Voldemort is scared of him. Yet, if you keep increasing his importance to the Light he becomes more and more interesting as a target for a decapicitation strike, to the extent that Voldemort might well decide it would be worth making the strike and just take the risks, which would leave the Potters dead and the Light without a leader to coordinate and keep the Death Eaters from either escape or summary execution.
That they got trials at all, even if the results were pretty much predetermined as a result of extensive Ministry corruption and public engineering, is an outright victory right there, and the fact that a lot of Death Eaters got arrested and tried would have at minimum made their political efforts difficult for a while and forced them to spend money and favours just to stay out of jail, while without Dumbledore they'd probably not have been tried at all and either have been executed to slake the public's thirst for blood and scape goats, show trial optional, or got away without any consequences, official or otherwise.