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

[Jordan Abel]

No: HPFGUIDX 159590

> montims:
> I think [Azkaban] 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

I think it's always been an instrument of extreme torture - there's no
reason to think the dementors haven't always been there. The WW is not
a nice place. JKR has said that it's no better than the real world,
and it's only better for Harry because he meets nice people.

I think that Azkaban is probably the wizarding equivalent of "Federal
PMITA Prison", with Dementors acting as a substitute for the PMITA.
(if you don't know what that stands for, watch Office Space) except
there apparently aren't any other, 'nicer' prisons. Maybe there were
before Crouch, maybe not - who knows?

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Random832