Wizarding justice (was use of unforgivable curses)

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No: HPFGUIDX 33799

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., Edblanning at a... wrote:
> In a message dated 17/01/02 20:29:14 GMT Standard Time,
mlfrasher at a... 
> writes:
> 
> And then there's Azkaban itself. Seems a bit much for minor
misdemeanors. How 
> are they dealt with? Or do wizards only commit crimes on a grand
scale?
> 
Hagrid certainly went to Azkaban without any kind of hearing and 
not even any formal charges. He seems to have been held in something
like protective custody.  But he still got the full treatment from the
dementors.

As UC's get life in Azkaban, then there must be shorter sentences for
lesser crimes--perhaps thirty days for stealing broom straws? In 
colonial North America, theft was a hanging offence for the second
conviction (hand branding for the first). So, Wizard Justice might be 
more draconian than ours. The Dementors sound like a good way
to reform a budding criminal.  But then, I favor caning to sending 
delinquents to jail, suspecting that it might be more humane in the
long run.


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