What happens to a secret when the Secret-Keeper dies?
• Does the destruction of a Horcrux involve more than the destruction of the object? – 38% • Why did Voldemort want the Philosopher’s Stone if he already had his Horcruxes? – 16% • Answer (February 21, 2006): The secret dies with the Secret Keeper. • I was surprised that this question won, because it is not the one that I’d have voted for but hey, if this is what you want to know, this is what you want to know! 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. Just in case you have forgotten exactly how the Fidelius Charm works, it 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 c
