Fate of the Captured DEs

[Vivamus]

No: HPFGUIDX 118087


What do you think will be the fate of the captured Death Eaters?

With the dementors no longer guarding Azkaban, it is not secure.  Putting
them there would almost certainly result in their escaping and returning to
LV.

Now that the WW knows LV has returned, they are going to be fearful and
paranoid -- probably even more so that fifteen years before.

Every one of the captured DEs was caught red-handed assisting LV.  There can
be no doubt at all about the guilt of any of them.  They were not only
caught in the MOM, their presence there validates Harry's earlier story
about their voluntary return to LV, their pledge to his service, and their
attempted murder of Harry.

Given the extreme danger to the entire world from LV, and the certainty of
the guilt of the DEs, and the lack of any secure facility for containing
them, there seems to me to be only one option (although I doubt JKR would do
it, for plot reasons.)

It seems to me the only reasonable thing Fudge CAN do (before he is voted
out of office) is to hold the full Wizengamut trial right NOW on them, while
they are still under the anti-disapparation jinx, validate all the facts on
their guilt, and then march them over to the execution room and through the
stone arch.

I don't for a minute think that is what will actually happen, only that it
is the most reasonable thing.  The DEs will be sent to Azkaban, LV will
break them out, and that's when the panic really will start to happen.

That much is very predictable, but the real question is, what will happen
then?

I think we may get a Neville Chamberlain to replace Fudge, and we'll hear
conciliatory language about "getting along" with LV and the DEs.  

If LV is really going to be greater and more powerful than ever before, then
I think you will need to see the following things happen:

* all (or nearly all) the DEs returned to LV

* 12 Grimauld Place falling into LV's hands (it never did before)

* conciliatory or compromising positions taken by the MoM vis-à-vis LV

* Albus Dumbledore dead

Can you imagine the tension if the above is the situation at the end of book
6?

Vivamus