[HPforGrownups] Accio 2005 press release: new Guest Speaker and Trial of Snape

[Carol Thoma]

No: HPFGUIDX 128144

--- Ali <Ali at zymurgy.org> wrote:
<snip> 
> Accio is also delighted to invite all its delegates
> to participate in its show trial of Severus Snape.
The trial will take place with the Potions Master in
absentia. He will be tried on the following 4 counts
(a Ron style explanation is provided on our
> website)
> 
> 1. That the accused did, feloniously, treasonously
> and with malice aforethought, combine with others to
support the most bloody, abhominable and beastly cause
of the notorious, prescribed and avowed traitor Thomas
Marvolo Riddle, sometime called Lord Voldemort;
> 
> 2. That the accused did, feloniously, treasonously
> and with malice aforethought, voluntarily accept
membership within a prescribed and illegal
organisation, vulgarly termed "the Death Eaters";
> 
> 3. That the accused, feloniously, treasonously and
> with malice aforethought, continues as a member in
said illegal organisation
> 
> 4. That the accused has on divers occasions and
> under the guise of lawful chastisement committed
assault and battery on minors in respect of whom he
was in loco parentis, such assault and battery being
occasioned by divers magical and physical means, and
resulting in perceptible physical and psychological
harm to the said minors.

Carol responds:
Shouldn't that be "proscribed," not "prescribed," in
item 2?

BTW, sounds like a rigged trial, with the verdict
determined in advance. If Snape doesn't get off on
items 3 and 4, it's definitely a kangaroo court.
(Sounds like an accurate reflection of the corrupt
justice system in the WW.) I'll check out the site,
but it sounds as if pro-Snape or neutral/objective
input is a waste of time.

Carol, who sometimes copyedits for Prometheus Books
but unfortunately wasn't assigned the Kern book
(assuming that he doesn't share the anti-Snape
viewpoint so evident in the so-called trial)

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