[HPforGrownups] Re: OoP: Same old sorry Fudge...

[Kelly Grosskreutz]

No: HPFGUIDX 62355


> --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Kelly Grosskreutz" <ivanova at i...>
> wrote:
> >
> >
> > > Lucius Malfoy in prison already? No trial? No appeal?
> > >
> > > Not that I have the slightest bit of sympathy for Lucius. In fact, I
hope
> > he
> > > becomes the girlfriend of a troll in there, but the fact remains,
Fudge
> > still has a
> > > disturbing tendency to issue summary justice.
> > >
> > > Darrin
> >
> > Kelly:
> >
> > I was discussing this very thing with a friend last night, and she
pointed
> > out something I had forgotten.  In CoS, Hagrid is sent to Azkaban on
> > suspicion that he opened the Chamber again.  It was supposed to be a
> > temporary measure.  We never got the impression from that book that it
> would
> > be permanent without a trial or hearing or something.  Maybe this is
what
> > they did with this batch of DE's.  They are arrested and sent to prison
> > pending trial.  We don't know for sure, haven't heard one way or the
other.
> >
> > Kelly Grosskreutz
> > http://www.idcnet.com/~ivanova
>
> Darrin:
> This all occurred to me, Kelly, but then why did Draco say, "He'll break
out"
> rather than "He'll hire the best lawyer and get off?"
>
> Even if you're right, and you could very well be, I dislike Fudge's notion
of
> justice. It is obvious to me that if V-mort were to fake his own death,
Fudge
> would go right back to believing he was dead and trying to discredit
anyone
> who says different.
>
Draco said Lucius would break out because that's probably what would happen.
I'm not saying you're wrong and they were sent there with no trial on the
horizon.  I'm just saying that we have nothing saying that a trial wasn't in
the works, either.  But Lucius and co. aren't going to stay in there that
long, in Draco's mind.  And I don't care for Fudge's idea of justice, never
have.  And he wouldn't even be acknowledging V's return if there hadn't been
all those Aurors there.

> Darrin
> -- Girlfriend of a troll? C'mon, that was a little funny.
>
Yeah, I do like the image.  Totally missed that line when I read your
original post.

Kelly Grosskreutz
http://www.idcnet.com/~ivanova