Azkaban and wizard prisons/wizard lawyers

[cynthiaanncoe at home.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 25671

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "Eric Oppen" <oppen at c...> wrote:
> But I can think of a _lot_ of ways to be an unethical, nasty, 
corrupt
> slimeball without ever joining up with Voldemort, if I were a 
wizard.  <snip>

Not to mention the wonderful possibilities in the fraud
> field.  Any halfway-competent wizard could scam up a pretty good 
living off
> the Muggles by just pretending to be a seer or fortune-teller.
> 
> For that matter, who in the world needs Avada Kedavra to kill?  
Conjure up
> some ropes, tie the victim up, levitate him or her up about fifty 
or sixty
> feet, drop hard onto nearest hard surface or into deep water, and 
once dead,
> dissolve the ropes, and the Muggle please-men'll have a jolly time 
figuring
> out that murder was even done!
> 
*Gasp!*  Well, thank goodness we have MoM to keep this sort of thing 
to a minimum.  I think MoM exists to make sure wizards don't abuse 
their powers over muggles.  So much of what you describe ought to 
land you in wizard jail for violating the Protection of Muggles Act 
and International Code of Wizarding Secrecy, just for starters.  Then 
the Improper Use of Magic Office would get ahold of you.  That's 
assuming that you didn't accidently attack a wizard who is stronger 
than you and who deflects your hex onto you so that you land on your 
head instead.  Even if you hired the best wizard lawyer around, all 
they'd have to do is use Priori Incantantem on your wand, and Sirius' 
prison term will look like a weekend holiday to you.

By the way, we have had wizard journalists, nurses, bus drivers, 
retailers, politicians, and executioners.  Why no wizard lawyers?  
Maybe in OoP?

Cindy (waiting for JKR to write a helpful, thoughtful, honest, witty, 
attractive lawyer witch or wizard)