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

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> > Pippin:
> > The DE's will find them when the Australians, who take a dim view of people entering their country illegally, deport them back to England.
> > Voldemort doesn't have an army of agents looking for people who are  in Australia illegally. But the Australians do. Credentials are easy to fake, magically or otherwise. The trouble is, the police know that, so they look for other things. Nervousness, inconsistencies, all stuff that gives inexperienced liars away. Magical credentials won't solve that problem. 
 
> Montavilla47:
> 
> This is sort of beside the point, since Hermione doesn't mention
> any worries about her parents being deported--but is Australia
> especially harsh on immigrants from England?

Magpie:
If the Australian authorities were really putting every middle aged couple from the UK under enough scrutiny that they're going to be noticing nervousness and grilling them extensively, they'd probably notice "inconsistancies" that come up when someone's actually been memory charmed and so missing a few screws! The Grangers are in witness protection, basically. Hermione wouldn't think twice about her ability to pull this off without a memory charm. Can't help but think the assumption that her parents absolutely need a complete memory erasure to get through customs--and that they would pretty much beg for such a thing because it would be so much easier for them than giving a fake name--seems like a side effect of Muggle infantalization (no where else do the Muggle authorities show any level of competence).

-m