When will the ministry start kicking butt and taking names?

[a_svirn]

No: HPFGUIDX 146738

> Carol:
> On a related note, I expected a mass escape from Azkaban in Book 6.
> Will we get one in Book 7? Some of the DEs, for example Dolohov,
> Mulciber, and the Lestrange brothers, were already serving life
> sentences and are unlikely to be let out again for good behavior, but
> with no Dementors to guard them and Voldemort being short-handed,
> surely he'll want them out again in Book 7? And Lucius Malfoy's
> sentence may be short since he's only charged with breaking and
> entering and attempted robbery. Or is being a Death Eater in itself
> sufficient grounds for a life sentence in Azkaban?

a_svirn:
It is entirely possible that they are not in a hurry to escape. 
Certainly Lucius is better off exactly where he is. Was he even tried 
at all by the way? If he wasn't it makes him not a convict but rather 
a detainee, so he can probably arrange his own release when the time 
is right. (Which is to say, when it's clear which side is winning).