User blog comment:Miskos3/Fairy Tail Chapter 419: The Message of Fire, Review/@comment-1359322-20150207121117/@comment-7418318-20150207131607

If Makarov could use Memory Manipulation Magic he wouldn't have needed Doranbolt to erase LH from everyone's memory. Or rather he wouldn't even have needed to tell him about it in the first place and thus minimize the risk of the information getting out.