The Malfoys WAS: Wizarding kids and their parents

[pippin_999]

No: HPFGUIDX 183983

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Carol" <justcarol67 at ...> wrote:

> Instead, we're left to wonder what the Grangers, with their new
names and identities, did for jobs and money. 

Pippin:
Ah, but you don't like wondering, and I do. I'm selfishly glad that
JKR catered to my taste and not yours.

The Grangers would have a retirement fund, and cash set aside for a
rainy day. Well, it rained -- and retirement money wouldn't do them
any good if they didn't live to spend it. They have national health in
Britain and Australia, so they wouldn't have to build or rebuild a
private practice.

 As for credentials, Hermione could have given them the same sort of
magical "this will explain everything" paper that Dumbledore gave to
Mrs. Cole. 

It would be too bad if the DE's trashed their house -- and yet that
would cover their disappearance nicely, what with all the other
mysterious deaths and disappearances going on.

Possessions are a small price to pay if you escape with your life, I
think. But then I'm descended from a woman who fled from Tsarist
Russia hiding in the bottom of a wagon, with her money sewn into her
dress and my infant uncle in her arms. That wasn't safe or dignified,
and it sounds  incredible. But in times like those, you either have an
incredible story, or you're dead. 


Carol:
If it was a Confundus Charm, it
> must have been an extraordinarily long-lasting one, and if there's
> such a thing as a Confundus Charm that powerful, who needs the
> Imperius Curse?

Pippin:
We know there's a confundus charm that powerful, since Snape obviously
wasn't expecting the confundus charm he put on Mundungus to wear off
or be detected.  

 Imperius evidently takes far less skill to master, has a more
damaging effect on the mind of its victim, and  produces a tingling
sense of power and control in its caster -- all reasons for the
Ministry to take a dimmer view of its use, IMO. 
 

Carol:
There has to be a better way.

Pippin:

Some people thought there had to be a better way to escape the Tsar,
too.  They died.

Pippin