Sirius Black, speaking about Barty Crouch Jr

(but probably also from experience holy shit

because Sirius doesn’t have any sympathy for death eaters nor should he but hell he knows all about sons thrown to the dogs for the sake of family reputation and then left to rot in azkaban while their rich and powerful relatives didn’t lift a finger oh my god

he says “Crouch’s fatherly affection stretched just far enough to give his son a trial“ guys this arrest happened right after Sirius’s

Walburga was still alive and Sirius sure as hell didn’t get a damn trial

blasted off the family tree in-fucking-deed)