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[Jorlem]

Bob Schroeck wrote:

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Jorlem wrote:

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If I'm reading that right, the 'hack' is the bit that ensures people who know the Secret, aside from the Secret Keeper, cannot tell the Secret. Correct? So, wouldn't removing or 'patching' that make it so anyone who was told the Secret could freely retell it?.

(Also, the impression I had was that it wasn't something like a compulsion that stopped people from leaking the Secret, but that it somehow simply became flat-out impossible to do so.)

The following assumes a) Doug is right, b) the analogy to a DBMS is exact enough, and c) this gets used in the story.
The "hack" is using the Akashic Records of the people told the secret as backdoors to them. 
The Fidelius uses this backdoor to essentially "rewrite" the reality of each person so that they are incapable of revealing the secret. 
Someone else could use the same hack to apply perfect mind-control, permanent transformation, or simply flip the "alive/dead" bit on the person's Record.
If Doug blocks the backdoor, can he then tell the secret?  He'd have to undo the changes to his Record first, assuming he could even figure out what they were.

The way the exposition is presented, though, it gives the impression that this is how the spell works in this fic.  Part of that is from this being a first draft, but I think a bigger part of it is coming from the multitude of fics that define different mechanics for how certain spells work, and use exposition like this to convey that information to the reader.  So, when I read this, I automatically filed the computer analogy under 'how this works', without giving much thought to the chance that the exposition could be wrong.  It's a bad habit, but an easy one to fall into.
Also, by whatever point in the story this might come up in, would Doug have found out about the spells that can make places Unplottable?
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