[HPforGrownups] Re: Memory Charms and why they bother me. (WAS: Is there ...

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No: HPFGUIDX 57270

In a message dated 5/7/2003 3:25:20 PM Eastern Daylight Time, 
A.E.B.Bevan at open.ac.uk writes:


> "Tom Wall" wrote:
> > Memory Charms, and their frequent use in the WW, bother me, I 
> think, more than just about anything else that we've seen to  date.
> > 
> 

"Edis" replies

> Yes it is a thought, all that wiping clean. A big dramatic point in 
> Orwell's 1984 is the way the Ministry of Truth alters historic 
> records... some similar threads here?
> 
> There are also, come to think of it, some instances where memory 
> charms are NOT used. Aunt Marge has her memory modified so she 
> doesn't remember getting blown up - but nothing in Canon about the 
> Dursleys being charmed to forget seeing that incident. Nothing about 
> the Dursleys being charmed to forget their collison with wizarding in 
> their own sitting room in GoF. Harry has to return to a Dursley 
> hosuehold with full memory of a number of things...
> 
> Just wondering if this memory-charm free zone is significant in plot 
> terms... maybe the Old Magic depends on memories not being 
> obliviated...

There seems to be no real reason to obliviate the (muggle) families of 
Hogwarts students-they are already moderately familiar with the magical 
world.

L.I.W.Y.


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