Sirius's Incarceration, A Reconsideration

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All these years, I’ve accepted Sirius’s summary incarceration without a whisper of protest, or indeed much thought. After all, indefinitely imprisoning (without even a show trial) enemy combatants, or enemies of the people, is merely what any self-respecting tyrant, or war leader with aspirations to dictatorship, does. Hitler and Stalin had their camps, George Bush his Guantanamo… Heck, even Abraham Lincoln suspended habeas corpus during the Civil War! Desperate times require desperate measures.

But on reflection, I smell… well, not a rat.

We already knew about the rat, and his contribution to the mess.

I smell something worse than that.

( That )