PoA chapters 4-6 post DH look

[pippin_999]

No: HPFGUIDX 181413

 
> 
> "Forget it, Harry," said George bracingly. "Dad had to go out to 
> Azkaban one time, remember, Fred? And he said it was the worst place 
> he'd ever been. He came back all weak and shaking
 They suck the 
> happiness out of place, Dementors. Most of the prisoners go mad in 
> there" – p.76
> 
> Alla:
> 
> This quote I typed sort of in reply to responses to my previous 
> post. I was asking how people would know how bad it is in Azkaban.
> 
> I mean, yes, sure officials go there, that I can see in canon and 
> totally agree. But it seems that even if not every prisoner gets 
> life sentence, most of the prisoners go mad there.
> What I am trying to say is that I do not think I can buy that many 
> people are released before they go mad. I mean, I can see how rumors 
> about Azkaban appear, since some people go on the Ministry business 
> and maybe, maybe some people are given very short imprisonment 
> terms, but I am just not seeing that too many people are released. 
> IMO anyways.
> 

Pippin:
Not too many *sane* people are released, perhaps. But we never hear of 
people being kept in Azkaban *because* they've gone mad, do we? So  the
mad people are released, to be cared for at home or at St. Mungo's, and
that explains the rumors.

Pippin