Reply To: In Witch He Snorted

True, that is what it says explicitly in the books but it is also mashma that nobody really knows what happend to the charm after the secretikeeper dies. Hermione was acting out of caution, she wasn’t sure what the effect of her bringing Yaxley into the house was. For that matter, what would happen before Dumbledore had died if one of them would have apparated into the house with somebody else who did not know the secret holding on? What if the secret-keeper does that? We know that he can divulge the secret through writing (the note Harry read) but does apparating have the smae effect? Nobody seems to know for sure so therefore they acted with caution assuming the worst.