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The Unforgivable Curses are: Cruciatus Curse (Crucio), Imperius Curse (Imperio), Killing Curse (Avada Kedavra).
Which one of those curses is worse?
The punishment is the same, a life sentence in Azkaban.
Is that fair?
A Dementor's kiss.
Is it a punishment at all?
First I think that a dementor's kiss should be unforgivable and it should never ever be used. I mean there is nothing that a person could do that would warrant their soul being sucked out of their bodies.
I mean I know she had to make the dementor's a thing of nightmares, but I hate that this punishment was used on Barty Crouch. He could have been put back into prison.
I do think those punishments for using an unforgivable curse is right on the money. Especially if you hold it up against the muggle system of law. Murder, well in the USA and in some states is a capital crime, meaning they can ask for the death penalty. Forcing someone to do your bidding I think carries a life sentence depending on what you make them to. And then torture is a life sentence as well. So I don't think she was off the mark on that.
I think that having the dementors as guards at the prison was cruel and unusual punishment. You have already locked up these people and they have to spend their lives in a tiny cell never leaving and not even being allowed to be buried with their families. But then you have these creatures that suck out all their happy memories and you make then live in the gutters of their minds. Reliving every horrible thing that has ever happened to them. I mean what if a person had been abused as a child, mentally, physically, sexually and you are forcing them to relive that horror ever single day because you suspect them of opening up the Chamber of Secrets of something like that. How is that justice?
Justice is supposed to be swift and fair and never cruel. Justice is having someone pay for a broken window when they break it. Not chopping off their hand.