The Storming of Azkaban -- Voldy's first blunder?

[Caius Marcius]

No: HPFGUIDX 16058

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., Dave Hardenbrook <DaveH47 at m...> wrote:

What if Voldy's
> "breaking open of Azkaban" liberates as many of his bitter foes
> as his devoted allies?

(1) Almost certainly the great majority of those convicted were 
guilty, even if the judicial process failed to meet the appropriate 
standards of impartiality and fairness. Barty Crouch Jr. was beyond 
the shadow of a doubt a follower of Voldemort, even though the 
mechanisms that served to convict him were flagrantly biased. And as 
for Sirius Black, his was an unusual case in that he was so 
convincingly framed by Peter Pettigrew. 

(2) If you were to be unjustly imprisoned for a number of years as a 
supporter of the XXX party, despite your stalwart opposition to them, 
and the XXX party later secures your liberty, would your loyalties 
instantly return to the ruling regime which had remained content to 
let you rot? Or might'nt you feel some new warmth towards your 
liberators?

  - CMC