[HPforGrownups] Re: memory charms not used on Dursleys

[Debbie Westmerland]

No: HPFGUIDX 36640

The letter was from the ministry if you remember in PoA, when Fudge finds Harry on the bus. Harry was worried about getting expelled from school because he used magic and Fudge says it doesn't matter, Harry said to him about when he got the letter, Fudge said that the circumstances had changed but he didn't say anything about not sending a letter.

I hope that made sense :)

> 
> exposed to magic WITHOUT having their memory modified.  (A couple 
> questions regarding this passage - what must Mafalda Hopkirk 
(Improper 
> Use of Magic Department) have been thinking to send an owl into a 
> muggle residence where it might be (and was) seen by muggles other 
> that the Dursleys?  Very irresponsible, I should think.

I doubt it really *was* from Ministry. It could have been a forged 
letter from a Malfoy.

>  And how about 
> the owl just dropping the letter on some starnger's head - not a 
very 
> secure method of delivering confidential correspondence.  And I 
> thought the owls were supposed to be very disceerning in regards to 
> parcel delivery...)

Pigwidgeon seemed to have a little trouble with it... but it might 
have been sent by i.e. Draco Malfoy, who told the Owl to do so...
 
Debbie.