PoA chapters 4-6 post DH look

[Zara]

No: HPFGUIDX 181405

> Alla:
> Consider me lazy – who was it Charley or Bill?

zgirnius:
Bill. Charlie is the Quidditch star.
> Alla:
> I also think that Molly's objection here sums up Dumbledore's 
> thoughts of Harry not knowing in OOP and what Arthur says 
undermines 
> it soooo nicely. I do not want to make him miserable, I want to put 
> him on guard. 

zgirnius:
For all the good it did. <g>
 
> Alla:
> maybe some people are given very short imprisonment 
> terms, but I am just not seeing that too many people are released. 
> IMO anyways.

zgirnius:
We are told that a few months in Azkaban is the penalty for hexing 
Muggles and resisting arrest - this is the punishment the Gaunts 
receive for these crimes. Do you really believe this is a less common 
crime in the Potterverse than the use of Unforgivables and service to 
Dark Lords, the sorts of crimes for which we hear of life sentences 
being handed out?

It is true that we meet more people who are, have been, or are 
believed to be, servants of a Dark Lord than people who commit lesser 
crimes against Muggles and Ministry officials. But I always assumed 
this was because we were reading the story of a prophecied hero who 
was destined to defeat a Dark Lord and therefore attracted an unusual 
subsample of his society's villains to him, not because all wizards 
are law abiding, except the totally murderous ones.