A World Worth Fighting For (Was Re: On Jurisprudence)

[Goddlefrood]

No: HPFGUIDX 169728

> Lizzyben:
 
> There's no indication at all that such protections against 
> injustice exist in the WW. The Wizengamot has all the 
> protections & safeguards of the Spanish Inquisition. 

Goddlefrood:

We can not know this. There is far too little to go on. One 
example used earlier was that of Hagrid being sent to Azkaban 
during CoS. The understanding I had of that was that he was 
remanded in custody due to his record having been against him.

Even though he had not originally opened the Chamber in the 40s 
he had been thought to be the one and the official record was 
that he had. Tom Riddle cleverly set him up, but that is not 
to say that Hagrid was not widely believed to be guilty.

I've changed the title now because I want to write a post about 
why the WW is worth fighting for. I'll leave insurrection to 
those who wish to participate in that ;-)

"A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step."

Proverbial saying that is rather apt in the situation of the 
WW and Harry's quest within it. The system is rotten from the 
ground up, something like this:

"Everyone in authority stole. Whoever held office and did 
not steal created a desert around himself; he made everybody 
suspicious. Other people regarded him as a spy sent to report 
on who was stealing how much, because their enemies needed 
such information. Whenever possible they got rid of someone 
like that in short order - he spolied the game. All values 
thus came to have a reversed meaning. Whoever tried to be 
honest looked like a paid stoolie. If someone had clean hands 
he had to keep them deeply hidden because there was something 
shameful and ambivalent about purity. The higher up the fuller 
the pockets."

Does this sound like the WW? Very much so, IMO, but it is Iran 
as described bt Ryszard Kapucinski in his excellent "Shah of 
Shahs". This was the Iran before the Ayatollahs, corrupt, 
devoid of effective government, living in fear, and, bizarrely,
supported by the US.

The WW may not even be as bad as that, it has problems and 
corruption and those with money are able to buy favours, pace 
Buckbeak's tribulations. It's not irredeemable though, and 
all it will take for a better deal for all witches and wizards 
and indeed other beings and creatures in it is for a few good 
men and women to step forward and step by painful step start 
the process of cleaning it up. 

Worth fighting for any day of the week. Harry, go to it, says 
I.

Goddlefrood.