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

[montavilla47]

No: HPFGUIDX 188111



--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "dumbledore11214" <dumbledore11214 at ...> wrote:
>
> 
> Montavilla47:
> <SNIP>
> It's also a bit illogical for her to memory charm her parents
> unless it was *without* consent. If they were willing to move to
> Australia in the first place, then they could just as easily pretend
> to be Wendell and Monica Wilkins as be charmed into believing
> that they are.
> 
> So, charming the Grangers to believe that they are different people
> won't make any difference to their being traced. It will only make
> a difference to whether or not the Death Eaters get any information
> from them if they are traced to Australia. Actually, it would put
> them at greater risk, since they would have no idea that the
> Death Eaters might be coming after them or what to do if they
> did. <SNIP>
> 
> Alla:
> 
> I disagree. I think it can make a huge difference if Grangers will read about Hermione being caught and tortured by DE for example if they are pretending to be someone else, OR if they would read that imaginary tale planted by DE to make them come out and save their daughter when they truly **believe** that they are somebody else.
> 
> I do not know about you, but no matter how much I will be pretending that I am someone else, I will run as fast as I can to save a child in my family, pretended indentities be damned. But if I will not remember that I know this child, **then** I will stay put.
> 

Montavilla47:

Where would the Grangers be reading this account of their 
daughter being tortured?  Muggles don't get wizard news.

If the Death Eaters can't trace Hermione's parents, then 
they can't be sending them messages about her daughter.
If they can trace the Grangers, then they don't need to 
lure them anywhere, they can just go and get them.

And, at that point, it doesn't matter whether they are
memory-charmed or not.