non-TBAY Reply: TBAY - Despiadado Denethor, Imperius, and Cruciatus

[Catlady (Rita Prince Winston)]

No: HPFGUIDX 44643

Eileen Lucky Kari wrote:

<< Of course, Sirius Black never lies or exaggerates. So it must be 
true. >>

G'rrr.

<< Godwin's Law >>

I had to look it up on Ask Jeeves!

<< There is no historical parallel for the Death Eaters. There isn't 
a terrorist group that operates completely in secret and yet has the 
capacity to destroy the government and life as we know it.... except 
in conspiracy theories." >>

Does it help to think of the Death Eaters as BEING the government? 
Like right-wing paramilitary death squads of RL 1980s? The situation 
gives me a feel for the ordinary person's caught-in-the-middle-ness, 
altho' in RL they were between the paramilitaries and the guerrillas, 
not between the military governmment's secret police and the 
hypothetical equally deadly agents of the few honest judges left.

<< I'm going to go out on a limb and guess that there weren't many 
pleas of complete innocence. (snip) How did Lucius Malfoy get off? >>

We've gotten the impression that there were many Death Eaters who 
walked free, not just Lucius. We find it not at all implausible that 
there are more innocent people in Azkaban than just Sirius. If *only* 
guilty people and sports stars got off, this suggests that wizarding 
justice was not merely INCOMPETENT, but explicitly CORRUPT: it gives 
the impression that very probably the Department of Magical Law 
Enforcement employee responsible for Imperius'ing false confessions 
from the accused was him/her/self a Death Eater who walked free and 
made the effort to save those of hiser Death Eating colleagues whom 
heesh recognized. Yuck. I mean, at that point, how do we know that 
Barty Sr wasn't Imperius'ed into authorizing use of the Forbidden 
Curses? Wasn't Imperius'ed into staging that show trial against his 
son? Wasn't Imperius'ed every minute of his life from the early days 
of the Voldemort Reign of Terror?

<< Draco Malfoy is Legolas. >>

Only fanon!Draco.