Why haven’t Quirrel offered to Obliviate Harry of that day’s events, maybe using a Pensieve first?
That would require bringing someone else in on the secret. Quirrell can’t cast magic on Harry directly, remember?
Obliviate the third party afterwards?
The third party doesn’t need to know what the memories being obliviated are. Just that they’re being paid to obliviate everything that happened that day, and that they will be obliviated themselves of this act immediately afterwards.
Yeah, in retrospect that’s not really much of an impediment- he could just Imperius, say, Sprout into Obliviating Harry, then Obliviate her.
Why bother? It’s been made clear that people with mental powers are commercially available. Remember Harry’s Occlumency instructor.
That would require bringing someone else in on the secret. Quirrell can’t cast magic on Harry directly, remember?
Obliviate the third party afterwards?
The third party doesn’t need to know what the memories being obliviated are. Just that they’re being paid to obliviate everything that happened that day, and that they will be obliviated themselves of this act immediately afterwards.
Yeah, in retrospect that’s not really much of an impediment- he could just Imperius, say, Sprout into Obliviating Harry, then Obliviate her.
Why bother? It’s been made clear that people with mental powers are commercially available. Remember Harry’s Occlumency instructor.