Memory-Charmed!Voldemort

[Jacob Lewis]

No: HPFGUIDX 46426

Angie first suggested a memory charm in lieu of Voldie being six-by-six in
the ground.

Then Julie gave evidence that memory charms are hard to do ("Now, let's see,
how's that memory charm go again?"), and wonders whether
Memory-Charmed!Voldemort would work:

> 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.

I also wonder at this, not only because it would take a HUGE spell to erase
around sixty, seventy years' memory of life, but I think it would take a lot
of power to do so, power that, at seventeen, perhaps our young Hero wouldn't
have.  Remember, it takes six or seven handlers to get a Hungarian Horntail
stunned, and Voldemort is powerful, with a lot of charms and wards built
around him to prevent, say, accidental re-death by sneaky assassination,
that sort of thing (thinking here of, well, every paranoid, power-hungry
dictator/demagogue/despot he's ever encountered).  Would a memory charm
work, even if you weakened him?  Could you weaken him in the first place?
If you did, would he get a cell in the madhouse next to the Longbottoms, for
true poetic justice?

Hm...  it would be nice to think that a quick memory spell would do the
trick, and then everything would be sunshine and daises, but I just don't
know -- seems a bit of a let-down.  (Sort of like the Mad Magazine parody of
TMTSNBN: "We destroyed the Cirrhosis Stone, Harry." "Great!  If you were
going to destroy the stone anyway, why couldn't you have done that at the
BEGINNING of the movie?")

Jacob