[HPforGrownups] Azkaban

[Nathan]

No: HPFGUIDX 9188

>At 07:46 PM 1/13/01 +0100, Dinah wrote:
>>I always kind fo assumed - or at least hoped - that there was Azkaban for
>>the really bad cases and more human prisons for your everyday criminal
>>wizard. But Hagrid's imprisonment there just because they *assumed* he had
>>something to do with the Chamber shows that there isn't. After the whole
>>Volemort-Time they obviously go for a better-save-than-sorry policy.

And Dave replied:

>They also obviously have a medieval legal system, since they are throwing
>people like Sirius in prison without a trial.

However this apparently was a recent development. There was the Bartemius
Crouch Jr. trial shown at one point, as well as the Karkaroff trial.

>I just had a horrible thought -- What if Sirius' name is cleared, but then
>he gets busted for being an unregistered animagus??

We're never really told what the penalty is for being an unregistered
animagus is... maybe it's considerably lighter than being thrown into
Azkaban. I'm thinking it's more along the lines of the Underage Wizarding
Act violations or the Muggle Protection Act violations.

Nathan