Hermione and her parents Redux WAS: Re: Wizarding Top Ten

[ceridwennight]

No: HPFGUIDX 188076

Alla:
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> The idea that without such memory charm you are much more likely to break under torture and give out to Death Eaters everything you know about your child's whereabouts is what would have convinced me to agree to it.  See, Kemper called Hermione selfish for doing it upthread, I would have called Hermione's parents pretty selfish if they would not have agreed. It is about their daughter's life too, right?

Ceridwen:
After about 48 hours the information the Grangers had would be of no use.  That's under ordinary circumstances.  In this case, Hermione vanished from Bill and Fleur's wedding to -

Where?  They didn't even tell the Weasleys where they were.  The latest information the Grangers would have had was that Hermione was at the wedding, which the DEs would know was no longer the case.

The older an informant's information is, the more useless it is to the questioner.  The trio went silent for months after the wedding.  Any information the Grangers had would have been moot.  Hermione could not have told them about Grimmauld Place. If she mentioned Godrick's Hollow, that would have been common knowledge - in fact, without any outside information Voldemort planted Nagini near the old Potter home to watch for Harry.  Hermione barely lived at her parents' home, being in school for ten months of the year and then spending much of her summertime with the Weasleys.  The Grangers would have had little to no information of value.

Ceridwen.