It really annoys me ...

[pippin_999]

No: HPFGUIDX 163808

Inge:
> Having just gone over the Dark Mark chapter in GOF, I realised how easy 
> it really was to check Harry's wand for the last spell it cast (The 
> Dark Mark). It took - what.... 1½ minute to check it out?
> 
> Why on earth then is it, that Sirius had to go to Azkaban with no 
> trial, when all they needed to do, was to check *his* wand, to see if 
> he indeed *did* cast the spell that killed all the Muggles - and all it 
> would have taken was a few minutes..... not much compared to 12 years 
> of socialising with Dementors.

Pippin:
The Avada Kedavra curse kills only one person at a time, otherwise
Lily could not have thrown herself in front of Harry. The curse used
on the Muggles (and supposedly Pettigrew) was thought to have 
killed thirteen people at once, and therefore could not have been
Avada Kedavra. The Ministry, if it tested Sirius's wand for shadows
at all, would only assume that the unknown curse had not produced
them, though I doubt that Crouch, power mad and increasingly
unjust, according to JKR's web site, even bothered. 


Pippin