The Fate of Voldemort

[jastrangfeld]

No: HPFGUIDX 46416

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "Angie" <angiebebb at h...> wrote:
> There seems to be a lot of speculation about how, exactly, Harry is 
> going to solve the little problem of disposing of Voldemort.  If 
you are of the camp that doesn't want Harry to 
> become a murderer (even if it is only Voldemort), this seems to be 
a 
> nice safe option.  Voldy is stopped, fairly unviolently, and Harry 
> retains his virtue.  > --Angie, delighted to be able to make LoTR 
and HP comparisons like 
> all the other posters :D


Snipped a bit ;o)

While I think this is a very honorable idea, I'm not so certain it 
would work.  Seems to me if I remember correctly . . . that when deep 
memory charms are needed (Gosh, to wipe away almost everything 
through the beginning of his Hogwarts years?) that it makes the 
people a little bit stupid, to really worthless.  

Evidences of this.  Well in COS, while Lockhart does not say what the 
reaction of the wizards he put the memory charm on is, we cannot 
assume what happened to them with it.  However, he did put it on 
himself, however accidental.  And seeing as he only needed to charm 
away a few minutes from Harry and Ron, the result on him seems really 
rather drastic.  We know Lockharts pretty stupid after the Obliviate! 
spell.  At the same time, I suppose he does say he wants to make it 
appear as if they'd lost their minds . . . (Harry & Ron I mean.)  So 
perhaps he did hit them with a huge spell.

Ok, lets move to GOF and Bertha Jorkins.  

p685 hardcover:

"He put a very powerful Memory Charm on her to make her forget what 
she'd found out.  Too powerful.  He said it damaged her memory 
permanently."

And I almost remember reading Dumbledore saying something to the 
effect the she was rather sharp at school, in that she'd remember all 
sorts of gossip or something like that.  Yet in later years at the 
MOM she seems rather a nitwit.

It would seem these charms have to be done just right, and you can't 
overdo them.

I guess it's still a possibility then :o)  I don't think I've managed 
to make my point, but rather support yours!

Julie :o)