[HPforGrownups] Re: DD's plan -- Minister of Magic

[Eric Oppen]

No: HPFGUIDX 189147

Quoting pippin_999 <foxmoth at qnet.com>:

> Eric:
>>
>> A good idea is a good idea.  And considering who we are talking about
>> (mass-murdering, torturing terrorists) I find it difficult to resist
>> the idea.
>>
>
> Pippin:
> Would it help you to resist if you remembered that one of the people  
>  killed under that policy would have been Sirius Black?
>
> If the goal is to prevent innocent people from being murdered, it   
> does not seem that JKR thinks state-sponsored executions are such a   
> good idea.

Before I did _anything,_ I'd want to make sure that the people in  
question were guilty.  Why they didn't even try to question Black  
(make sure he wasn't under the Imperius or otherwise magically  
controlled, wait till all possible antidotes were out of his system  
and then dose him with Veritaserum and question him, get a Penseive)  
is utterly beyond me.

Once I was sure of guilt, though...unlike fashionable opinion on the  
other side of the Herring Pond, I am with most of my fellow Americans  
in not opposing the death penalty for sufficiently heinous crimes, and  
what the DEs apparently did routinely certainly qualifies.

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