[HPforGrownups] Re: Bigotry in the Potterverse/Hermione and her parents

[Rick H. Kennerly]

No: HPFGUIDX 188188


> Magpie:
> I'm not saying that Voldemort couldn't have. I'm saying that in the book--which is the whole story--JKR wasn't going there so I think it was a bad idea to throw in something that's as disturbing to some readers as Hermione memory charming them to explain some big protection that never has any payoff anyway. 
>   
rick:
I disagree.  By DH the DE's had driven the entire Weasley family into 
hiding (except Percy), kidnapped Luna, and tried to kidnap Neville's 
granny.  Clearly they were working in Muggleville as well, hence the 
deaths, train wrecks and bridge collapse.  What made the Weasleys a 
target?  Ron was with HP & Ginny was working inside Hogwarts.  What made 
Luna a target?  She and her father openly supported HP.  What made 
Granns a target?  Neville was carrying on HP's work inside Hogwarts.

Hg's parents didn't have to know anything for the DEs to use them to 
torture the Trio into the open or at least to force Hg to give herself 
up to save her parents. 

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Rick Kennerly
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