Law, Human Rights and democracy in the Wizarding World

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No: HPFGUIDX 31161

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "lazaraspaste" <lazaraspaste at y...> wrote:
> > But before that. As regards Crouch Sr: rereading GoF, I think 
> you're 
> > probably right to see Crouch in an Ashcroft role. 
> 
> Delurking just to put in my two cents. I always felt that Crouch's 
> role during the Pensieve trials was far more analogous to Joseph 
> McCarthy during the Communist witch hunts of the 1950's or even 
> Kenneth Starr. Those trial scenes played for me like a Senate 
> Commitee Hearing Investigating Death Eater Activities rather than a 
> traditional criminal trial. Feel free to correct me if I'm wrong but 
> I think that in Senate Hearings they have the right to sentence if 
> they find someone guilty. Obviously, I have no idea what that 
> parallels in the British legal structure are or even if there is a 
> parallel. Back to lurking.
> 
> Lazaras Paste

I agree--I thought immediately of the McCarthy era extra-judicial proceedings. 
What about the Star Chamber? My British history is pretty rusty, but wasn't 
that a sort of extra-judicial proceeding during the Tudor era?

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