Hermione's parents (was Re: A Sense of Betrayal / Unforgiveables)

[Bruce Alan Wilson]

No: HPFGUIDX 174353

How do we know that Hermione did this to her parents as an ambush? 
She may have sat down and explained the situation to them and what 
she proposed, perhaps using the well-known phrase from countless 
spy novels, 'what you can't know you cannot be made to reveal.' 
If she had done a good enough job in explaining matters to them 
-- perhaps bringing in one or more adult wizards whom they knew
well enough to trust--they might have agreed to it, much as people 
in the real world agree to go into the Witness Protection program.

Bruce Alan Wilson

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