OOP: Something that disturbed me

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No: HPFGUIDX 64922

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Matthew Huston" 
<matthisattva at y...> wrote:

 The Order was willing to do anything in their battle to both
> stay secret as long as possible, and to fight the forces of evil. 
Like
> someone else wrote, memory charms are not truely harmful, but 
while it
> may be questionable moralisticly, it was a neccesity under
> circumstances when there will little or no options left.

I'm only a little disturbed by the memory charm in OotP.  I can see 
why they saw no other option.

I'm far more bother by the charms in GoF.  The wizarding community 
obviously didn't do anywhere near enough to get the people ready for 
interaction with muggles.  They used the momory charms to cover 
their own sloppiness long before the DE showed up.

I must admit that erasing the memory of the DE attack and of 
Pettigrew's attack disturbs me even though I see why they did it.  I 
feel that the family members of the muggles killed in Peter's attack 
deserve to know the truth. (I know the wizards didn't know the truth 
either, but that's beside the point.)  

In the case of the family at the world cup there are a couple of 
reasons.  First, they left those people not even knowing what time 
of year it was.  Second, how complete are memory charms?  Will they 
have nightmares they can't understand because they don't remember?  
Can erasing the memory erase the emotional impact of the attack?  If 
not, then they'll have a far harder time dealing with the emotions 
if they don't even know why they feel the way they do.

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