Now that Dumbledore is dead is Number Twelve, Grimmauld place able to be seen by

Question:

Now that Dumbledore is dead is Number Twelve, Grimmauld place able to be seen by everyone?

So i know that Dumbledore was the Order of the Phoenix's secret keeper and that no one could find or see the house without Dumbledore telling them personally where it is. So i was wondering now that he has passed from this world to the next can everyone see the house or does the house now truly pass out of existence? I mean no one else who doesn't already know where it is will not be able to find it because the secret keeper hasn't told them. Like with the potters...say that Wormtail had died instead of telling Voldemort where the potters were, would them remained invisible to everyone as Flitwick implies that are so long as Wormtail didn't tell in the third book? Along those lines what happens to the order now that thier head is dead?

Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: This is straight from the author herself.

"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 chooses to divulge it" (Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban)

In other words, a secret (eg, the location of a family in hiding, like the Potters) is enchanted so that it is protected by a single Keeper (in our example, Peter Pettigrew, a.k.a. Wormtail). Thenceforth nobody else – not even the subjects of the secret themselves – can divulge the secret. Even if one of the Potters had been captured, force fed Veritaserum or placed under the Imperius Curse, they would not have been able to give away the whereabouts of the other two. The only people who ever knew their precise location were those whom Wormtail had told directly, but none of them would have been able to pass on the information."