Questions brought up re-reading PS

[kaciagemini]

How do so many people seem to know about Voldemort's attack on Godric's Hollow so soon after it occured? (Minerva has heard rumors even though she's been sitting in front of 4 Privet Drive since approximately 8 hours after the attack. Dumbledore sends Hagrid to fetch Harry before the muggles begin to gather. Seems a house collapsing/being blown

Comments

[thepastperfect]

I actually had never made the distinction between the house and the Potters, so here's what it says in PoA (chapter 10):

"An immensely complex spell," [Flitwick] said squeakily, "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. As long as the Secret-Keeper refused to speak, You-Know-Who could search the village where Lily and James were staying for years and never find them, not even if he had his nose pressed against their sitting room window! ... James Potter told Dumbledore that Black would die rather than tell where they were"

So to me, that sounds more like Pettigrew was protecting James and Lily, not their specific house in Godric's Hollow. But then, I suppose it could go the other way, as obviously the spell doesn't protect them when they're "out in the field," so to speak - at least I assume it doesn't, say, make them invisible while they're running around London. *sighs* These things sound so simple on the surface ...