[HPforGrownups] Re: Fudge - Lockhart - Florences, Slugs - Why Harry Lived - Where Dumbledore Studied

[Barbara Purdom]

No: HPFGUIDX 19546


Jenny from Ravenclaw writes:

  Sending Sirius off to Azkaban without a trial is
> definitely a panicked response to a dire situation. 
I suppose it reminds me of McCarthyism 
> here in the States when so many people were
> blacklisted simply because our government decided
that *any* association (however distant) with 
> certain other systems of governments was bad, bad,
> bad and had to be stopped. 

Ironically, it is also reminiscent of Soviet tactics
that led to many people being summarily shipped off to
Siberia (which I think is a more fitting parallel to
Azkaban than Alcatraz, the similarity in names
notwithstanding; people who've returned from Siberia
certainly seemed to have had all the happiness sucked
out of them).

> I also think the MoM is not the best government
> around.  Incompetence 
> and corruption seem to be lurking under the surface.

> [snip]
  Accepting such large donations from
> someone who was a known DE?  How superficial!  This
is something that happens with politicians all the
time (well, not the DE part). 

Depends on your interpretation of who might be
equivalent to Death Eaters in our world.  Supporters
of the Contras and the School of the Americas, maybe? 
The Klan?  Neo-Nazis?  Corporations that use slave and
child labor in third-world countries?  All far MORE
evil than Death Eaters, in my book.  > 
 
--Barb


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