[HPforGrownups] Re: OOP: Something that disturbed me

[Katherine Krasney]

No: HPFGUIDX 64884



hermys_quill <chitrasahai at yahoo.com> wrote:
--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "marinafrants" <rusalka at i...> 
wrote:
> Okay, here's something I haven't seen brought up yet: am I the only 
> one who was disturbed by the way Kingsley just blithely rewrote 
> Marietta's memory in "The Centaur and the Sneak" chapter?  Maybe 
> it's just my personal squick, because I firmly believe that messing 
> with a person's mind is the worst thing you can do with them, worse 
> than killing or torturing them.  <snip>  I think I might've been okay with it if, afterwards, 
> Dumbledore had at least expressed some regret at the necessity of 
> having to do such a horrible thing.  But he just seemed pleased 
with 
> Kingsley's cleverness.
> 
> Marina
> rusalka at i...


Me:In GOF, We had seen wizards casting memory charm again and again 
on a muggle camp manager during Quidditch World Cup and the charm 
made him forgetting things, going out of context for a while and 
wizards said those effects were just temporary. You must have noticed 
that Barty Crouch cast strong memory charm on Bertha and Lockhart 
always used very strong memory charm on his knowledge resources so it 
seems that casting a charm is related to intentions and intensity and 
Kingsley just put mild charm on Marietta.
Hermys_quill


And then me:

I agree with Marina.  I've actually felt this way for quite a while.  I was very distressed when I read about the camp manager in GoF.  I know it's important that the wizarding world keep their secret, but it's absolutely awful that they have the power to mess with people's minds and that they do it so frequently without a second thought.

I hadn't thought on the incident with Marietta before this, but it does bother me as well.  Yes it was important to keep Harry and the others safe, but that's just so wrong to do to a person.  Even if kingsly just put a mild charm on Marietta, it doesn't make it any better than what Barty Crouch or Lockhart did.

 

KathyK 

(who is treading hard to keep herself afloat in the sea of posts)



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