Justice/Child raising

[Susan McGee]

No: HPFGUIDX 5975

--- In HPforGrownups at egroups.com, "heidi tandy" 
<heidi.h.tandy.c92 at a...> wrote:
> --- In HPforGrownups at egroups.com, foxmoth at q... wrote:
> > --- In HPforGrownups at egroups.com, heidi <heidi.h.tandy.c92 at a...> 
> wrote:
> > 	Since both Ron and Hermione are shocked to learn that Sirius 
> was 
> > sentenced without trial, I assumed there *is* a right to trial in 
> the 
> > wizarding world. GOF(27) I suspect the Ministry declared a state 
of 
> > emergency and imposed the wizard equivalent of martial law. 
> 
> That would be a good possibility - it would allow them to jail 
people 
> without trials - but they *did* give trials to others at the same 
> time, and generally when martial law is lifted, those who were 
> imprisoned without trials are then  given the trials that 
they "lost" 
> the right to in the first round, and that doesn't sound like what 
> happened to sirius. 
> 

Sirius makes reference to Barty's reign at the MOM as essentially
martial law. He gave new powers to the Aurors, allowing them to kill
and allowed the unforgiveable curses to be used against the DEs.
He was in charge. He decided that Sirius would have no trial, but 
allowed his son, Ludo Bagman and the LeStranges a trial....

S