Memory charms (was "Slytherin" Hermione?)

[finwitch]

No: HPFGUIDX 112349

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "huntergreen_3" <patientx3 at a...>
wrote:

> 
> HunterGreen:
> I think that Lockhart just wasn't as talented with memory charms as 
> he claimed to be. He's not really talented with *anything* besides 
> fame, so I wouldn't be surprised if he's not good at the one thing he 
> thinks he can do. -- Lockhart on the other hand, was simply erasing 
> memories. We don't know how far back he was *intending* to go (since 
> the broken wand may have may the charm worse than he intended), but 
> he had planned on telling people that Ron and Harry "lost their 
> minds", so perhaps what happened to him was what he intended (when 
> Ron used the 'eat slugs' hex/jinx/curse, it didn't appear to do 
> anything beyond what he had planned). 
> Perhaps Lockhart is unaware that obliviate can be used on *specific* 
> memories. Perhaps he just uses it *strongly* (if there are different 
> levels), and the reaction he's noticed is that it makes people appear 
> to lose their minds, so he thinks thats what it does (as in, its the 
> *only* thing it does).

Finwitch:

Intention! If Lockhart's intention was to erase any memory having to
do with the fact that he knew no other spell than "Obliviate" - this
intent fulfilled on Harry/Ron would erase *very* little - they only
knew it for that year... (And besides, someone would have noticed if
they went that unaware!) 

However, this same INTENT upon Lockhart himself would erase *his*
memory nearly completely (he's ALWAYS known that secret he was about
to obliviate away!), as *he*, quite naturally, has very few memories
other than that obliviating-cheat!

And I do agree that Kingsley knows the charm better than Lockhart!
(Then again, his intent had to do with DA-meetings, of which Kingsley
himself has NO memory as it is... much safer, isn't it?)

Finland