Is the wizarding world a democracy?

[meltowne]

No: HPFGUIDX 75206

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>...you certainly wouldn't 
> have people being dragged off to that nightmarish place Azkaban 
> without a trial, as Hagrid was in CoS.

(and Sirius - he never had a trial either).

... or people dragged off to military prisons to face a military 
tribunal - if they even get around to setting it up?  Not only do we 
have foreignersin guantanamo bay, but we also have many in custody 
who were already in the US, plus at leat 2 US citizens I know of who 
were at least initially denied access even to a lawyer.  While I 
think the WW is morelike a constitutional monarchy than a democracy, 
I thinkt he situations cited could just as easily happen in a 
democracy.