[HPforGrownups] No justice

[manawydan]

No: HPFGUIDX 56603

Bill wrote>

>But the thing that really bothered me was the entire 'justice
>system', for lack of a better word.

>First of all, the simple *existence* of a place like Azkaban.  The

>Second, the ease that people are thrown into Azkaban, without trial.

>This fits in with the larger picture, actually.  Look at how Hagrid
>was expelled from Hogwarts as a student, although any proper

It's certainly a sinister picture. The fact that the aurors were given the
power to use unforgivable spells is another example. It appears very
strongly that "justice" in the WW is arbitrary and things like the "rule of
law" that we are familiar with just don't exist there.

But it also fits (I think) with the kind of world that JKR has drawn. In a
bureaucracy, bureaucratic justice, arbitrary, authoritarian,
unchallengeable, is the way that justice would be. In a society where the
only apparent executive check on the bureaucracy is a congress of wizards,
the only form of hearing would naturally be the kind of tribunal we saw in
the pensieve.

Although we only get glimpses of the government of the WW, it's one of the
things that fascinates me: much darker and more threatening than the
"cosier" aspects like the pictures of home life at the Burrow,

Cheers

Ffred

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