The twelve year long wrongful imprisonment of an innocent man, a creature’s needless execution, the overworked, underpaid, and unfairly treated house elves (servants to wizards) all come to mind. I often compared the fictional wizarding world to the world in which I live and drew parallels between them which were, frankly, depressing. Two worlds, both full of violence and corruption. It made me wonder for the first time about the people who may have been prosecuted for crimes they never committed, people who have been sentenced to die for no reason. Since the first time I read Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, I have personally known someone who was unfairly convicted of a crime I know she did not commit. I wonder what she would think of Sirius Black, an innocent man who paid for a crime he had no part in with the last 14 years of his life. I wonder if, given the option, she would punish the person responsible for her wrongful
The twelve year long wrongful imprisonment of an innocent man, a creature’s needless execution, the overworked, underpaid, and unfairly treated house elves (servants to wizards) all come to mind. I often compared the fictional wizarding world to the world in which I live and drew parallels between them which were, frankly, depressing. Two worlds, both full of violence and corruption. It made me wonder for the first time about the people who may have been prosecuted for crimes they never committed, people who have been sentenced to die for no reason. Since the first time I read Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, I have personally known someone who was unfairly convicted of a crime I know she did not commit. I wonder what she would think of Sirius Black, an innocent man who paid for a crime he had no part in with the last 14 years of his life. I wonder if, given the option, she would punish the person responsible for her wrongful