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[pippin_999]

No: HPFGUIDX 188066


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> Ceridwen:
> Only if I intend never to regain my memory and come back to my ruined dental practice and the house that went back to the mortgage company because I thought I was someone else for a year and didn't make the payments.  By doing this, Hermione effectively ruined her parents' lives and livelihoods.  They probably lost patients, their practice, their home and everything they had collected through their lives.  Families have been torn apart for less.
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Pippin:
Funny, nobody doubts that Lily was willing to give up her life to save her child, and yet you think the Grangers wouldn't consider  putting their lives on hold and their memories in temporary storage to keep those memories from being used against their daughter? 

Imagine that your child is in danger -- is there  something that was yours to give that you wouldn't give to save her? 

If Hermione can give the Grangers new identities, I don't think it would be much of a stretch to restore their old ones. Especially given that a lot of people who mysteriously disappeared when their wizard neighbors took them into hiding will be coming back. I suppose the Ministry was quite busy for a while charming people to think their neighbors had gone on Sabbatical to Peru. Okay, that would be interfering with people's minds. But ordinary lies do that too.

Putting people in an Order safe house is evidently easier said than done.  In the first place,  Hermione couldn't tell the Order she was going on a  mission, especially since it seemed like their might be a spy. In the second place, there must be a limit to the number of safe houses the Order could set up, or they could have just set them up for everyone. 

I'd imagine that the Secret Keeper spell takes years and years to learn, like the Animagus transformation, and  several months at least to execute. 


Pippin