Timeline for Why weren't more Death Eaters kissed by a dementor?
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| Mar 29, 2017 at 10:14 | comment | added | can-ned_food | @jossgod “I also wonder why Dumbledore and the Minister didn't take the opportunity to kill or kiss the Death Eaters they captured” Slang gone wrong. | |
| Feb 19, 2016 at 18:02 | comment | added | Janus Bahs Jacquet | I’m not sure why you’d consider life-time imprisonment and a death sentence (or Dementor’s Kiss) inherently contradictory. Rather, I’d say that in the real world, a death sentence by definition includes a life sentence: you are imprisoned until your life ends, and your life ends when your death sentence is carried out and you are killed. With a Dementor’s Kiss, this is even more true: the body and brain live on afterwards, but the soul is gone—so you could still keep the body in Azkaban until it too dies from whatever physical cause. | |
| Feb 19, 2016 at 13:56 | comment | added | Skooba - Stands Against AI | Dumbledore, the Ministry and et al are supposed to be the "good guys". If you went around giving any of the opponents you had a death or worse sentence, I think you stop being the good guys. Just look at post WWII Europe, was anyone who wore the Nazi uniform executed? Also, remember many of the the death eaters convinced the Ministry that they were under the Imperius Curse to begin with. | |
| Sep 6, 2014 at 4:10 | comment | added | larissa | @jossgod "Prudent" and "legal" are not always the same. Even if the law allowed for a sentence of death/Kiss for what the DEs did at the end of OotP (the fact they all were sent to Azkaban implies but doesn't prove that it does not), there would still be 11 trials the Wizengamot would need to hold before any such sentence could be carried out. | |
| Sep 6, 2014 at 1:49 | comment | added | jossgod | I also wonder why Dumbledore and the Minister didn't take the opportunity to kill or kiss the Death Eaters they captured at the end of HP OotP? Seems like a prudent move IMO | |
| Sep 5, 2014 at 20:37 | history | edited | larissa | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Sep 5, 2014 at 20:14 | comment | added | larissa | @RoyalCanadianBandit oh, that makes sense. But just as, in our world, no one can receive both life without parole and the death penalty since they're inherently contradictory, there's no practical way to have a crime with a sentence of both life in Azkaban and (effective) death by Dementor's Kiss. It's a maximum sentence in that no worse sentence can be concurrently imposed. | |
| Sep 5, 2014 at 19:39 | comment | added | Royal Canadian Bandit | Rawling has a point. I would interpret "automatic" to mean a minimum sentence. It might be automatic for a drunk driver to lose their licence -- but they could face other punishments on top of that, such as fines and/or jail time, depending on the circumstances. That said, life in Azkaban is already the most severe sentence possible, other than death or the Dementor's Kiss. As you say, the Ministry may be opposed on principle to capital punishment. | |
| Sep 5, 2014 at 16:16 | comment | added | larissa | @Rawling which word would that be, "automatic"? that's a pretty clear 1:1 use Unforgivable Curse:be sentenced to life in Azkaban relationship imo | |
| Sep 5, 2014 at 11:40 | comment | added | Rawling | You're extrapolating an awful lot from one word. | |
| Sep 5, 2014 at 6:34 | history | answered | larissa | CC BY-SA 3.0 |