Discussion Summary: GoF/Chapter 30 - "The Pensieve"

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--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "Scott" <harry_potter00 at y...> wrote:

> Question- Once Dumbledore puts a memory into the Pensieve does he 
no 
> longer have conscious recollection of it?

I think so. It looks to me as if the Pensieve was a means not only to
"sort" your memories, but also to get them out of your head. Maybe
those trials are rather disturbing memories for Dumbledore, and he
doesn't want to think about them right now. Who wouldn't like to
have a Pensieve once in a while...

Neil wrote:
> (6) Crouch says to Karkaroff: "you have been brought from Azkaban 
to 
> give evidence to the Ministry of Magic." So, was this dungeon at 
the 
> MoM?

Scott wrote:
> --That seems very likely. Does this mean that the Wizarding world 
> doesn't have an established court system...

I always thought that they didn't have an established court system.
Even if you send people to Azkaban without a trial under certain
circumstances like VWI, you should reconsider those cases once the
order is reestablished. But no one ever cared to do this, and we 
learned in GoF that Sirius was not the only one who was jailed without
a trial. This makes me believe that there might be other people still
in Azkaban who might be as innocent as him. Maybe not... 
Hagrid was sent to Azkaban in CoS without even giving him the chance
to speak for himself. I wondered if there was another place to lock
up people whose guilt wasn't yet proven. Azkaban seems to be a bit 
hard a punishment in such a case.

Monika