Snape, Malfory and Azkaban

[garybec]

No: HPFGUIDX 111088

tonks_ wrote:
 Many of the DE are in Azkaban or in hiding, and some got off when 
they were tried in court. Snape was a DE and we do not hear of him 
being in Azkaban or a court trial. Also we have never heard of L. 
Malfoy being in Azkaban or on trial. Why is that?  Maybe they never 
killed anyone??

 Tonks_op

B_Boymn:
 There was an implied Hearing regarding Snape at which Dumbledore
intervined on Snape's behalf and assured everyone Snape was a good
 guy. Dumbledore's statement to this effect is from the Pensieve 
where Prof. Karkarov accused Snape (GOF).
 Slippery Lucius Malfoy, who in all likelihood had many powerful
friends indebted to him, claimed he was innocent and that he had been
bewitched (Imperius Curse) into doing all those horrible things he 
was accused of. Given his prominent status in the wizard world, and 
his ample distribution of gold to the right people, apparently the 
court decided he wasn't acting of his own free will, and slippery as 
ever, he got off. 

Steve/b_boymn

Becki wonders then;

During LV's speech in Gof in the graveyard scene, where LV is going 
around to his DE's, when he reaches LM, he says, "Lucius,  my 
slippery friend, I am told that you have not renounced the old ways, 
though to the world you present a respectable face..."

If he claimed "Imperious Curse", wouldn't that be considered 
renouncing?

To me, I see anyone claiming the imperious curse as renouncing.  
Wouldn't they have to claim, that they really weren't following LV, 
that they don't believe in his ways, that they were being 
controlled?  

I do agree with Steve.  I think there are passages that say that LM 
claimed Imperious Curse, perhaps even more than once, it is just 
that I think the graveyard scene contradicts that.

And since we are on the subject of the Imperious Curse, I have 
always wondered, why is it that Harry is able to fight off the IC, 
but experts, (ie: Aurors, like Madeye and Crouch) can not?  Is Harry 
really that powerful?  I would think in "Auror Training 101", that 
fighting off the IC would be one of the first things they teach 
you.  What could be worse than an auror being controlled by LV?

Any thoughts?
Becki