MoM Court System (was Discussion Summary: GoF/Chapter 30 - "The Pensieve")

[Penny & Bryce Linsenmayer]

No: HPFGUIDX 12153

Hi --

mohuebner0 at lycos.de wrote:

> 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.

I don't think that extreme police action measures in times of war
necessarily means that there is no established judicial system in a
given society.  I do see your point that the wizarding system should
have revisited imprisonment cases instituted during the time of crisis,
once the crisis was passed.  But, I still don't think it precludes them
from having an established system.  The next chapter of ASA has alot to
say on this (there I go again!  Another shameless plug ...).

My feeling was that the courtroom was in this "dungeon" area of the
MoM.  They aren't just taking statements as part of an investigation.
Bagman and Crouch Jr. were clearly "on trial" so to speak.

Penny



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