[HPforGrownups] Re: JKR's Single Biggest Error so far (was: Harry's last ...

[MadameSSnape at aol.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 123968

 
In a message dated 2/5/2005 12:15:02 AM Eastern Standard Time,  
dumbledore11214 at yahoo.com writes:

It is  not me, it is canon, which gives us the reason to think if not 
for sure,  but at least with a big possibility that some kind of 
hearing occurred (  with or without Sirius)

"I myself gave the evidence to the Ministry  that Sirius had been 
Potters' Secret Keeper" - PoA, p.392,  paperback.


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Sherrie here:
 
There may indeed have been an ex post facto "hearing" - or at least witness  
interviews - to justify throwing Black into Azkaban.  ("See, I was right -  it 
couldn't have been anyone else!")
 
The Ministry was still working on a war footing - and things are winked at  
in war that wouldn't be tolerated in peacetime.  (Andersonville,  Elmira...)  
I'm NOT saying that's a good thing (not 'ardly!) - just stating  that it 
happens. 
 
Sherrie
"We cannot escape history." - Abraham Lincoln


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