[HPforGrownups] Re: Memory Charms and why they bother me. (WAS: Is there anything in the HP world th

[Patricia Bullington-McGuire]

No: HPFGUIDX 57283

On Wed, 7 May 2003, edisbevan wrote:

> Just wondering if this memory-charm free zone is significant in plot 
> terms... maybe the Old Magic depends on memories not being 
> obliviated...

I have a feeling all parents and guardians of young witches and wizards
are exempt from the otherwise-compulsory memory charms.  They would have a
very difficult time raising their children and setting reasonable limits
for their kids if they couldn't remember what happens when magic is used.  
It would also be way too easy for kids to get out of trouble by casting a
disruptive spell and waiting for the MoM to show up and wipe the last 10
minutes from their parents' minds.

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Patricia Bullington-McGuire	<patricia at obscure.org>

The brilliant Cerebron, attacking the problem analytically, discovered
three distinct kinds of dragon: the mythical, the chimerical, and the
purely hypothetical.  They were all, one might say, nonexistent, but each
nonexisted in an entirely different way ... 
                -- Stanislaw Lem, "Cyberiad"