PoA CH 1-3 post DH look

[zanooda2]

No: HPFGUIDX 181362

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<dumbledore11214 at ...> wrote:

> I have similar question, I guess. I am sure there are many nasty 
> rumors about Azkaban, if Hagrid knows that it is so horrible and has 
> a look of pure terror on him, but how does he and everybody else 
> knows that Azkaban is so horrible if nobody escaped from there 
> before Sirius? Or did people escape from there?  


zanooda:

Not all the prisoners in Azkaban have life sentences - it's only for
murderers, I think. Morfin Gaunt spent 3 years there for hexing Riddle
Sr. and attacking Ministry workers. He came back alive - it was only
his second stay in Azkaban that killed him (that one was for life).
Marvolo Gaunt was sentenced  to 6 months, and so was Sturgis Podmore
in OotP. People return from Azkaban - that's how everybody knows about
its horrors.


> Alla:

> "It was nearly midnight, and he was lying on his stomach in bed, the
> blankets drawn right over his head like a tent, a flashlight in one 
> hand and a large leather-bound book (A History of Magic by Bathilda 
> Bagshot) propped open against the pillow".


zanooda:

Aha! Remember how in DH ("Godric's Hollow") Harry confesses to
Hermione that he only looked through "A History of Magic" once, when
he bought it ("just the once"). Lier, lier, pants on fire :-)!