SLYTH: DE's, Aurors, and Justice

[Cindy C.]

Quick question before I go mow the lawn . . . 

Where would all of the "Moody" and "Frank Longbottom" stuff go?

Maybe it is possible to have DEs paired with Aurors and leave the 
Justice parts for the Government FP?  Does it help if the name of the 
FP Porphyria and Debbie are doing becomes "Crime and Punishment" or 
similar -- to make clear that the focus is on evil-doers and their 
pursuers?

"Evil-Doers and Their Pursuers."  Kinda catchy, huh?

Cindy -- who wishes her lawnmower weren't 13 years old and a total 
wreck


--- In HP4GU-FAQ at yahoogroups.com, "Tom Wall" <thomasmwall at y...> wrote:
> All this is great! 
> 
> I personally would go more for a more streamlined approach, 
> as `hulking' (nice word, Cindy) FAQ's will have necessary 
> shortcomings: they'll overlap constantly, and structure will 
probably 
> suffer, not to mention that it'll be more difficult for people to 
> find what they're looking for if it's all lumped together under one 
> broad headline. 
> 
> In this current case, I'd say that separate FAQ's for the Death 
> Eaters and the WW Government would seem to be in order.
> 
> For government, we could take Penny's current FAQ, and add the 
other 
> items from Debbie's outline, with a few additions of my own:
> 
> The Ministry of Magic (UK)
> 1. Executive Branch (Fudge, Dept. of MLE/Aurors/Crouch Sr.)
> 1A. Department of Magical Law Enforcement
> 1B. Improper Use of Magic Office
> 1C. Department of Games and Sports
> 1D. Department of International Magical Cooperation
> 1E. Misuse of Muggle Artifacts Office
> 1F. Department of Magical Catastrophes (Fudge, Pettigrew's 
`suicide')
> 1G. Department of Mysteries
> 
> 2. Legislative Branch (maybe some of the above offices/departments 
go 
> here?)
> 2A. Decree for the Restriction of Underage Sorcery
> 2B. What other decrees/legislation do we have in canon for this?
> 
> 3. Judicial Branch (Council of Magical Law/Pensieve)
> 3A. Pensieve - public or private, trial or other hearings?
> 3B. Crouch as judge and prosecutor
> 3C. Azkaban – life sentences only!
> 3D. Jailing without trial (Hagrid's short stretch, Avery gets off, 
> Karkaroff cuts a deal)
> 3E. Dementors as MoM Goons (guards at Azkaban, at Hogwarts, with 
> Fudge)
> 3F. Committee on Disposal of Dangerous Creatures
> 3G. Capital punishment / Dementor's Kiss?
> 3H. Condoned use of Unforgivables in the past
> 
> 4. Equivalent Wizarding Govts.
> 5. International Government
> 6. Speculative Model for the Organization of the International 
> Confederation of Wizards
> 7. Relationship of Hogwarts to the Ministry (i.e. what Fudge will 
> talk about when he gets in touch with Dumbledore over the `running 
of 
> this school'/Ministry guidelines that still apply at Hogwarts: 
> werewolves, half-giants, countercurses)
> 
> Important questions:
> Why isn't Veritaserum used more often to ascertain the truth?
> Why isn't Priori Incantantem used more often to ascertain the truth?
> 
> 
> Now, regarding Death Eaters, we also have plenty to work with, if 
we 
> take the remaining outline items and add some others:
> 
> 1. DE Roll Call
> 1A. Known DEs; add more discussion (or cross-reference) for those 
> that have been discussed frequently, Who is Loyal Servant, etc.)
> 1B. Rumored DEs (Bagman etc.)
> 
> 2. General DE Questions
> 2A. Who are the Death Eaters?
> 2B. Who are Voldemort's followers?
> 2C. Structure and organization (cells, etc)
> 2D. Death Eater Methods of Operation (secrecy, spies, masks)
> 2E. Recruitment (what motivates DE's? are they a cult?)
> 2F. Activities/Plans/Goals (break open Azkaban, contact the giants)
> 2G. Loyalty and competence (e.g., how come they couldn't stun 
Harry?)
> 
> 3. DE Magic Theories – Note, if we're talking about the Dark Arts 
> here, we could include it with the DE FAQ, or else start a new Dart 
> Arts FAQ as well. My take on this is that we don't know a lot about 
> the Dark Arts, so for now, we might as well include it with the 
DE's.
> 3A. Knockturn Alley
> 3B. Flesh-Eating Slug Repellent
> 3C. Flesh, Blood, and Bone
> 
> 4. Dark Mark theories (GulPlum had a FANTASTIC post on the 
linguistic 
> origins of `Morsmordre' that would be great here!)
> 
> 5. Power Boost theories – I guess I'm in the dark on what this is 
> referring to – so I left it here for everyone else. ;-)
> 
> 
> So, based on all this, (and I'm sure there's more,) I'd lean 
towards 
> the separate FAQ's for each. Of course, I'll go along with whatever 
> the group decides. 
> 
> I just think that the more specific and organized that we can make 
> the FAQ's, the more luck we'll have with reader response and 
> understanding.
> 
> -Tom