is no subject ... should be Bertha Jorkins & Memory Charm

[nera at rconnect.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 18130

> 
> Bertha Jorkins found out that Crouch Snr was hiding Crouch jnr in 
his 
> house.  Therefore Crouch Snr put a memory charm on Bertha - it was 
> this that Voldemort broke through.  What puzzles me though, is how 
> did he know what to ask??
> 
> Catherine

Thanks, Catherine. I also found that out via the Lexicon and a re-
read. Amazing what you forget when you have not read the book in a 
while and get lost in other areas of discussion. I think it drains 
the brain .. mine anyway.

Maybe Voldemort just started drilling her about any information 
concerning the MOM and when he got to the Crouch part of her memory, 
discovered that there was a Memory Charm placed there. (not sure how 
this works... perhaps the person, under the right kind of spell, just 
blurts out, "This information is protected under a Memory Charm, I 
can not tell you any more about it.") 

Anyway, knowing Voldemort, he asked enough questions that led him to 
believe that she was leaving something out, so he zapped her brain 
with a counter curse to the Memory Charm. Then he discovered that BCJ 
was alive and well and the plan to send him to Hogwarts to bring 
Harry to Voldemort was begun. So much for Bertha's usefulness. 

Evil though it was, I loved JKR's play on words in the statement by 
Voldemort:

"It would be an insult to her memory not to use the information I
extracted from her, Wormtail."

Doreen