DanArmak comments on Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality discussion thread, part 11 - Less Wrong
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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.