Harry: Not Quite So Admirable.

[Geoff Bannister]

No: HPFGUIDX 158161

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Jordan Abel" <random832 at ...> wrote:
>
> Geoff:
> > "I know," Harry panted. "We'll take him up to the castle.
> > We'll hand him over to the Dementors. He can go to Azkaban...
> 
> Random832:
> And then they handed him over to the Dementors, and he went to
> Azkaban, of course. Or not. What i'm saying is, Harry learned
> something here, and might not repeat the whole idealistic "hand him
> over to the authorities" thing if given the chance. Particularly given
> that the authorities in question have since done quite a bit more to
> prove themselves thoroughly corrupt.

Geoff:
But they didn't hand him over because he escaped when 
Remus transformed...  ...so I don't see how your comment fits in.

My point is that Harry didn't want Sirius and Remus to become murderers 
by killing Wormtail; he felt that the Dementors were the right place for 
him to end up. Perhaps in a scenario with Voldemort, the same might 
be true. The authorities did at least begin to wake up and get the Death 
Eaters out of the way at the end of OOTP.