[HPforGrownups] MadEye & Malfoy - James & Snape - Everyone & Umbridge

[T.M. Sommers]

No: HPFGUIDX 69856

Rebecca Stephens wrote:
> 
> Firstly, I didn't say Malfoy shouldn't be punished. 
> But that method of punishment is wrong - no matter
> what the person did. I dont' agree with sending him to
> Azkaban (actually, I don't agree with sending anyone
> to Azkaban, so long as the dementors are there).

However, Azkaban seems to be the only form of punishment 
available.  Hagrid is sent there without even having charges 
lodged against him.

> Bring him up on charges (as Sirius should have been in
> my opinion) but don't transfigure him.  It is wrong.

What Malfoy did was wrong.  Letting Malfoy get away with what he 
did would be wrong.  Punishing him was not wrong.  Think of it as 
detention: Malfoy was detained for a couple of minutes in a 
ferret's body.