Feelings Toward Avi's Trial
Feature
Written by AriaChi
Edited by Sunnya
Feature
Written by AriaChi
Edited by Sunnya
Hello everyone and welcome back to another issue of the Daily Diviner! A few weeks ago, on February the 15th, Aviforma’s trial was held. Jack Quintin, the judge, assessed Aviforma on his three crimes; causing public disorder, conspiring against the ministry and Lauren’s assassination. Today, I’ll be interviewing Gospojken and Justin Woodlyn about Aviforma’s trial!
What were your feelings during the trial? Did anything surprise you?
Gospojken: The trial, Aviforma's trial that I took part in, gave me many feelings; I was excited, felt furiousness, and at the same time relief. It was really exciting to be at the trial as we are not often invited to trials by the Ministry of Magicians, perhaps it is because of the corruption of the Ministry that we are not invited very often... Judge Jack's arguments against Aviforma were poorly chosen by Jack, and he rather contradicted his arguments rather than trying to convince us, the Jury, that Aviforma was guilty. For instance, he said at the beginning of the trial that Aviforma knew that Chief Aurorlock Lauren was appointed and not elected, but later in the trial, he gives out a book written by Aviforma, where Aviforma states that Lauren "was not elected democratically", which strengthens that Aviforma did not know she was appointed. This is because he wrote "elected democratically" which technically means that she was elected by a smaller group of people and not just appointed to her position. I was also relieved when the Dark Followers interrupted the trial and put an end to it so that Aviforma could escape, one could hear and see that Jack was about to say that he found Aviforma as guilty, which would be incorrect, as the number of bird heads amongst the jury during the third voting was far many than the amount of Lauren heads.
Justin Woodlyn: I felt really calm and really safe while the trial and yeah some things surprised me indeed, I was very surprised that Aviforma got blamed by assassinating Lauren Strudel. His arguments were really good, so good that they convinced me that Aviforma was definitely innocent.
What did you like and dislike about the trial?
Gospojken: I really liked the number of players that took the chance to attend as the jury during the trial, and even if Jack said a few questionable things like "SILENCE BIRD" I thought it was quite funny expressions.
Justin Woodlyn: What I liked about the trial was that both sides really stood their position and tried to convince the judges that they were right. Also, it was an honor to be there and to vote for who was innocent and who was guilty in your opinion.
Did you think it was a fair trial?
Gospojken: To give a few examples of why the trial was unfair, we can mention that Jack after a little while, probably unintentionally, admitted the Daily Diviner as untruthful by saying "Yet these protests you have started are also for your own profit and far more dishonest." It is also clear that it was an unjust trial as the judge, Jack, many times hindered Aviforma to give his evidence, and also twisted Aviforma's words against him every now and then. Also, when Aviforma asked a question, the judge, Jack, decided to dodge the questions by silencing him and continued to question Aviforma instead. In addition, when Aviforma mentioned that the assassination of the Chief Aurorlock Lauren was done in the elevator at the Ministry of Magicians itself and that no Aurorlock came to rescue her, Jack dodged that fact, which truly shows the corruption of the Ministry trying to frame an innocent like Aviforma.
Justin Woodlyn: Yes I think it was a fair trial, they tried to convince the judges by words and as I know there were no unfair moments in the trial.
Do you believe Aviforma is guilty or innocent of Lauren’s assassination? Why?
Gospojken: I believe in Aviforma, and therefore that he is innocent, and after the trial, my perspective was still the same as the trial was rigged and not fair at all, also because Jack chose weak arguments and often contradicted himself, this rather resulted in my thoughts on his innocence strengthened.
Justin Woodlyn: I think Aviforma is innocent indeed, he told us that he wasn’t there at that moment and he was questioning himself why they didn’t send help to Lauren while she was being attacked. Aviforma’s arguments were really convincing and truly enough to believe.
After watching the trial, did your thoughts of Aviforma’s accusations change? How so?
Gospojken: After the trial, my perspective was still the same as the trial was rigged and not fair at all.
Justin Woodlyn: Yes. First I was on the side of the Ministry of Magic because I think they are good and following the rules that had been written by the law but since there was no evidence that Aviforma was the assassinator I really changed my mind and was more convinced about Aviforma's stories. Finally, I voted for the release of Aviforma.
Thank you to Gospojken and Justin for giving their thoughts, those were definitely interesting answers! Did you attend the trial? What did you think of it?