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the more I think about Sirius and his reaction, the clearer it seems
that he believed that Azkaban was where he deserved to be. Of course, as
Padfoot he was safe from the Dementors, but not from his own
obsessively guilty thoughts - until Fudge's newspaper gave him something
worth living for. And then he acted.<br><br></div>The whole plot line
serves to illustrate how easy it is for people with otherwise high
standards of ethics and high expectations of law and its enforcement can
shed them in times of crisis. Consider the innocent owners of Dachshund
dogs in WWI England, reported as German spies! Consider the responses
of the United States (government and people alike) to 9/11, when the
rule of law and the restrictions on detention without trial and even
torture suddenly seemed irrelevant. <br><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1415927091991_2643">Me:</div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1415927091991_2619">Also, remember what Sirius told Harry, Ron, and Hermione in GoF: that Barty Crouch Sr. had him thrown into Azkaban without a trial, because of both Crouch's fanaticism and the climate of paranoia that prevailed at the time.</div>-Chris<br><hr id="yui_3_16_0_1_1415927091991_2614" style="height:2px;border-width:0;color:#E3E3E3;background-color:#E3E3E3;">
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