MoM Court System

Mon Feb 19 13:27:14 UTC 2001

No: HPFGUIDX 12600

Hi --

Bear with me everyone, I'm cleaning out emails from last week (and
before!) that I wanted to respond to!  :--)

Monika Huebner wrote:

> I said: >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.
>
> Monika responded: You are the professional, so I have to believe you
> here. But to me it didn't quite look right to be a trial.

Well, I'm no trial lawyer by any means, but ....

Harry says that the Bagman "trial" is a "different trial" (see pg 591 --
Ch 30 -- GoF, US).

Pg 592 sounds more like a Council of Magical Law decision (no jury), but
there was a jury vote on pg 593 in the Bagman matter.

Crouch Sr. proclaims that the dungeon is a "court" (pg 594)

There was a jury vote again in the Crouch Jr. trial (pg 595)

Sirius also refers to the Crouch Jr. matter as a trial (Ch 27 -- pg 528
-- US edition)

So, all in all, I do have the impression that there is a Wizarding Govt
justice system, although it is clearly flawed in times of crisis.

Penny

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