[HPforGrownups] wizard/muggle relations: The Dark Side

[srsiriusblack at aol.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 48635

In a message dated 21/12/2002 02:38:46 Eastern Standard Time, 
christopher_g_nuttall at hotmail.com writes:


> We know from GOF that Memory charms, which are constantly placed on muggles 
> who have seen something they should not have, can damage a person's mind.  
> However, all the wizards seem to put them on muggles whenever they see 
> something magical.  To me, that seems a sign of a disturbing development, 
> all wizards see muggles as non-people, the worse ones will think of them as 
> toys.
> 
> It could be just me, but I suspect that Draco had a quiet respect - not 
> liking - for hermione.  However, some of the 'good' wizards do not hesitate 
> at possibly inflicting permerment harm on Muggles.  What an Irony; the 
> 'bad' wizards may respect muggles and muggle-born more then the 'good' ones


Actually, my take on the memory charms in GoF was that they were only 
detrimental to a person when they were broken... 
Voldemort when speaking to the death eaters said that after he was done 
extracting all of the memories from Bertha Jorkins that she was not of any 
use to him as a body to posess...

I took this as a meaning that when a strong memory charm is placed on a 
person and then forciably broken, it is detrimental, but the charms, 
themselves, are quite safe memory modifications.

-Snuffles
"All men dream: but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty 
recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the 
dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dreams with 
open eyes, to make it possible. This I did."  T.E. Lawrence- Seven Pillars of 
Wisdom


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