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

[Odile Falaise]

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Kriselda Jarnsaxa <thorswitch at thunderhaven.net> wrote: I think it's more likely that the memory charms are used in situations where someone who has not had previous contact with the WW and is unlikely to have any future contact with it is suddenly exposed to it.  Altering 
their memory can protect them and the WW.  For others, though, who have Witches or Wizards who live in the same house with them, it's not seen as necessary (or practical) since they're pretty much used to it, whether they like it or not....


And here's me [Odile] chiming in: My thought is that memory charms are used on those Muggles who are most likely to expose the WW.  Take, for example, that bloke who found the OoP books in the field the other day - what was his first reaction?  He blabbed it all to his friends.  His friends' advice?  Tell the sleaziest tabloid in Britain! The Dursleys, on the other hand, are desperate to be viewed as "normal" (whatever that is) and went so far as to pretend that Petunia never had a sister, never mind reveal the fact that Lily was a witch.  That would be too humiliating.  Hermione's folks (as well as other Muggle families of witches & wizards), OTOH, are sympathetic that the WW has to be kept secret from Muggles, and therefore are trusted enough to keep their secrets, no memory charm needed. Just my two knuts. 

Odile

Going cross-eyed reading all these posts.  ^_^

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