It really annoys me (but not me) .

[Geoff Bannister]

No: HPFGUIDX 163809

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "eggplant107" <eggplant107 at ...> wrote:
>
> "Inge" <Elvishooked@> wrote:
> 
> > 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. 

Eggplant
> Why on earth do you think the Ministry of Magic was interested in
> finding the truth about this incident, or the truth about anything
> else for that matter?  The people were scared and outraged over this
> incident, the people demanded that their leaders find the culprit
> responsible for the atrocity; so the ministry did as was expected of
> it and provided a "culprit". But it's better not to look too closely
> at the evidence, hence the lack of a trial. Truth has never been very
> important to the Ministry of magic, remaining in power is. 
> 
> > Anyone else who's annoyed by something "not logic"? 
> 
> It's all perfectly logical, if you have mind set of a dictator. 

Geoff:
You don't even need that....

There have been several high-profile cases in the UK in recent years 
where innocent people were locked away accused of attacks linked 
with the IRA during the worst of the Irish troubles in the 1970s and 
1980s because the police wanted quick results to placate public anger 
and were incautious in interpreting evidence and, in some cases, 
responsible for massaging the evidence to fit the theory.

It's not the mind set of a dictator; as you said in the preceding 
sentence, it's the mind set of frightened people wanting to keep 
the power they've got.

Power corrupts etc.....