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

[Bex]

No: HPFGUIDX 173851

gary: 
> > 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? 

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.

Bex now:
Good comparison bamf!
That's how I wrote that detail off: modifying a memory is much
different that deleting one.

And JK confirmed this in the online chat - Hermione had modified her
parents memories, not Obliviated them.

~Bex