Because mind-wiping her parents would almost have certainly led to wiping the memories of their closest friends and some of their patients. Hermione couldn't have allowed people to ask questions now could she? She must have had a busy summer grabbing everyone her parents knew.
Which would be a lot, given that they're dentists. Did she alter every patient's memory so they never had dental work at all, or did she go the distance and transfer all their records to other dentists and modify their memories so they'd always been treating these patients? Or maybe she didn't think of that at all and a bunch of people tried to make appointments only to discover their dentists never existed.
I don't get why she couldn't have simply told them what was going on and sent them away on a plane to Australia or America. It seems like Wizards don't even have a viable means of international travel or even international communication. Unless the Death Eaters stooped to Muggle means, they couldn't even get to a far off continent like that. The memory wipe was totally unnecessary.
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Date: 2008-03-28 06:48 pm (UTC)Which would be a lot, given that they're dentists. Did she alter every patient's memory so they never had dental work at all, or did she go the distance and transfer all their records to other dentists and modify their memories so they'd always been treating these patients? Or maybe she didn't think of that at all and a bunch of people tried to make appointments only to discover their dentists never existed.
I don't get why she couldn't have simply told them what was going on and sent them away on a plane to Australia or America. It seems like Wizards don't even have a viable means of international travel or even international communication. Unless the Death Eaters stooped to Muggle means, they couldn't even get to a far off continent like that. The memory wipe was totally unnecessary.