Where is Barty Crouch Sr. When We Really Need Him?

[coriolan_cmc2001]

In discussions of the Pensieve trials from GoF Chapter 30, we have 
heard much on HP4GU, by way of analogy, to the most odious 
malefactors of history (the Spanish Iniquisition, Cotton Mather, Sen. 
Joseph McCarthy, Kenneth Starr) in Barty Crouch Senior's effort to 
prosecute the remaining supporters of Lord Voldemort . However, 
except for Sirius Black, it seems that the typical Death Eater on 
trial was more likely to receive a lesser penalty than he merited 
rather than a worse (e.g., Karkaroff and Bagman). And of course in a 
classic literary feint, JKR moves the reader to feel a tremendous and 
misplaced sympathy for the freshly-convicted Barty Crouch Jr., the 
most dedicated of all Voldemort's followers. 

And what is likely to happen when real-life Death Eaters are placed 
on trial by earnest European liberals? You may be disgusted, but 
please don't tell me you're surprised.

http://news.independent.co.uk/world/europe/story.jsp?story=116523

Sometimes you need John Ashcroft, not Ramsey Clark.

  - CMC