OOP: Something that disturbed me

[jenny_ravenclaw]

No: HPFGUIDX 64887

 --- 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?>

No, you're not the only one.  I was actually hoping something was 
wrong with Marietta herself in that scene and that's why she said 
nothing.  I didn't have any problem with Hermione's spell, though.

Hermy's quill responded: 
>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.>

So it would only have been bad if the charm wasn't mild, but strong?  
I can't buy that.  I noticed that in OoP, people in the Order and on 
the side of Good in general do things that are sneaky, unfair, or just 
plain mean.  Harry's use of the Cruciatus Curse still bothers me, as 
does Sirius's recklessness and encouragement of Harry to break rules 
at school.  All I can say to justify these things is that in times of 
war, people do what they have to do to survive.  Had Marietta told the 
MoM people what she and her peers had been doing all year, the 
consequences would have been very bad.  

I think we'll be seeing more sketchy behavior in books 6 & 7, and I'm 
willing to bet Harry will be a part of that.

--jenny from ravenclaw ************************