"I didn’t say he doesn’t deserve to be punished, he committed awful crimes and put lives in danger. He doesn’t deserve to go to Azkaban for them though, in one brief moment of yet more cowardly behaviour he didn’t give Harry over to Tom Riddle, fortunately it probably changed the course of the war. As much as I wished it wasn’t him I was defending, his actions led to us winning the war, so he doesn’t deserve Azkaban.’