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

[justcarol67]

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Carol earlier:
> <SNIP>
> There's no indication that the Grangers could have done something to save
> Hermione. She's ostensibly saving *them.* And if they *chose* to go to
> Australia, that's better than being coerced. <SNIP>
> 
> Alla:
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> I disagree. I believe that she is also preventing them from telling whatever "a lot about Harry" she told them and that to me may help lure Hermione and Harry out of hiding.

Carol responds:
But what could Hermione have told her parents about Harry that Voldemort didn't already know, either because it was common knowledge in the WW or because Wormtail or Snape giving what seemed to be valuable information or Bellatrix after the MoM had already told him or from his own experience with Harry?

Voldemort would know who Harry's best friends were, what his magical skills and weaknesses were, that he used Expelliarmus a lot, that he was good at Quidditch and played Seeker. He would know, as the Grangers probably didn't, that Harry's Patronus was a stag. About the only information that the Grangers might have been able to provide that LV didn't already know was that he loved Ginny.

But the DEs and LV wouldn't care about any of this. All they would want to know was Harry's whereabouts (which they discover twice through his use of the name Voldemort). No need to torture the Grangers for outdated and useless information.

Nevertheless, I agree that Hermione feared that her parents might be tortured if they remained in England (outside a safe house). At the very least, the DEs would use the excuse that Hermione was a missing and unregistered Muggle-born who might or might not have been with Harry Potter. So, yes, the Grangers themselves were in danger. But robbing them of their memories of their daughter would not have saved them from torture if they were found and would in no way have protected Hermione or Harry, as we see in DH in the cafe, with the Snatchers and in Malfoy Manor, and in Hogsmeade/Hogwarts after the Gringotts break-in. In all cases, Harry reveals his own presence through his own words and actions. And, of course, there's Godric's Hollow, to which Voldemort rightly guessed that he would return.

Nothing that the Grangers knew could have helped the DEs to find Harry. LV knew all that they needed to know of Harry's psychology and habits to find him eventually. No need for the Muggle Grangers, who don't even know Harry, to reveal something new. Just wait for Harry to say the name "Voldemort" or otherwise show his hand.

Carol, still convinced that Hermione's action can't be justified except in the unlikely event that her parents agreed to it