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I need some help on the chronology of the post-First War trials.
I think I have the events in order. From my notes on GoF (Chapters 24 and 30):
-- Aurors start dragging people in. The Lestranges should be among the first, since they've already had an investigation on them and they need to be caught and then released before they can torture the Longbottoms.
-- Karkaroff gets caught.
-- Travers, Mulciber, and Antonin Dolohov are all caught.
-- Karkaroff testifies.
-- Rookwood is sent to Azkaban after a trial. (This is presumably where Crouch presses him for information and finds out who he's been talking to.)
-- Ludo is pulled in for questioning.
-- The Lestranges and Barty torture the Longbottoms, and are caught.
-- The Lestranges and Barty stand trial and are sentenced to life in Azkaban.
My main question is, do we have any evidence for how long of a timeframe this was? Were the trials over by the end of 1981, or could they have stretched into 1982 or even 1983? Presumably the Lestranges/Crouch trial is among the last of them because GoF says it was when everyone thought they were safe.
The canon's pretty vague, I just want to know what other people think. Thanks guys. <3
I think I have the events in order. From my notes on GoF (Chapters 24 and 30):
-- Aurors start dragging people in. The Lestranges should be among the first, since they've already had an investigation on them and they need to be caught and then released before they can torture the Longbottoms.
-- Karkaroff gets caught.
-- Travers, Mulciber, and Antonin Dolohov are all caught.
-- Karkaroff testifies.
-- Rookwood is sent to Azkaban after a trial. (This is presumably where Crouch presses him for information and finds out who he's been talking to.)
-- Ludo is pulled in for questioning.
-- The Lestranges and Barty torture the Longbottoms, and are caught.
-- The Lestranges and Barty stand trial and are sentenced to life in Azkaban.
My main question is, do we have any evidence for how long of a timeframe this was? Were the trials over by the end of 1981, or could they have stretched into 1982 or even 1983? Presumably the Lestranges/Crouch trial is among the last of them because GoF says it was when everyone thought they were safe.
The canon's pretty vague, I just want to know what other people think. Thanks guys. <3