[HPforGrownups] DH: Short - A continuity error? or some other explanation? (chapt 9 spoiler)

[Metylda]

No: HPFGUIDX 172581


--- Gary <fiziwig at yahoo.com> wrote:

> This kind of jumped out at me on my first read.
> 
> Early on, Hermione reveals that she altered her
> parents' memory and
> sent them packing to Australia. Later, in chapter
> nine, (around page
> 190-200 or so, I don't have the book at hand here at
> work) they were
> going to do a memory charm on the two death eaters
> that went after
> them in the cafe, and when Ron said he'd never done
> a memory charm,
> Hermione claimed that she had also never done a
> memory charm. So how
> did she alter her parents' memory without a memory
> charm? Is this a
> simple continuity error, or is there some other way
> of altering
> memories that she might have used on her parents?
> 
> Trivial issue, of course, but I found it mildly
> annoying.
> 
> Other than that I thought the book was fabulous.
> 
> --gary
> 
> 
bamf:

I believe mugglenet.com sorted that out.  What Hermy
did to her parents was not the same as the memory
charm "Obliviate".  It would seem to be a much
trickier working as she would have to give her parents
fake memories (new names and all), and not just make
them forget something. It's like the difference
between being in the witness protection and having
amnesia.

bamf, who is going to go hide her keyboard now and not
post until tomorrow...

There is no snooze button on a cat who wants breakfast.

*****

Me t wyrd gewf


       
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