[HPforGrownups] Re: Ways of the Wizarding World - are all sentences Life Sentences?

[Janette]

No: HPFGUIDX 159587

> Cyril:
> > In all cases, it seems that when someone is sentenced to Azkaban -
> > it is a life sentence. There does not seem to be an option such as -
> > Sentenced to Azkaban for the next 5 years.
>
> Ceridwen:
> Grandfather Marvolo.  He was sentenced to Azkaban and released after
> three years, I think it was.  I think the problem is that we rarely
> hear about anything but the capital offenses, like killing twelve
> Muggles and a wizard, and driving a couple permanently insane.


montims:
Sturgis Podmore sent to Azkaban for 6 months, Mundungus Fletcher sent to
Azkaban for a time for impersonating an inferius, etc.

I think it works well as an ordinary prison, and is a good deterrent.  It is
where the DEs are concerned that it became an instrument of extreme torture
and injustice under Barty Crouch and again today (in the HP meaning of the
word) - comparisons could be drawn with the 21st century throwing of
so-called enemy combatants or dissidents into indefinite confinement without
trial, and I don't know whether JKR intended that comparison to be drawn,
but I do know that she promotes Amnesty International among other
charities...


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