Why Not a Memory Charm

[justcarol67]

No: HPFGUIDX 188143



--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, Lynda Cordova <sweenlit at ...> wrote:
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> Lynda:
> A simple change of location would keep the Dursleys away from office and school. It seems to me that was the point. Get them out of danger. And I'm sure they could locate a tv fairly quickly if one weren't provided.
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> Lynda
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Carol responds:
You snipped the post you're responding to, but I'm assuming that it's mine. They're not only staying away from the office and school, but they'll be in a Wizarding house with no electricity or cable or satellite dish to get TV reception, no telephone, and no wireless Internet even if Dudley brought a laptop. Maybe they'll have books of magic and an occasional Daily Prophet to read and can listen to Celestina Warbeck or the Weird Sisters on the Wizarding wireless, but they're going to be bored, bored, bored in my opinion, especially Dudley. ("I'm sure we shall become very good friends," says Dedalus Diggle optimistically, but I think he's sadly mistaken. the Dursleys will have nothing to do except argue--unless Hestia lets Petunia use her house-cleaning skills, but what will Vernon and Dudley do?

And I can just imagine their reaction when they get home to their house, which will be either vandalized or sold to someone else. Their abandoned car will have been confiscated, no doubt, by the Muggle police. At least the Grangers will have something to do in Australia and can probably find a house and a new dental practice in Australia. The Dursleys have lost everything except a few possessions and each other. (Probably serves them right, but that's beside the point.)

Carol, who doubts very much that Dudley is watching TV or playing video games (possibly Dedalus could summon him a punching bag)