The very next morning, it was all over the Daily Prophet that ten Death Eaters, including, it seemed, the very woman who had tortured Neville Longbottom's parents into insanity, had escaped from Azkaban. Of course, Fudge was loudly assuring everybody that Sirius Black, The Most Evil Wizard Ever Except For You-Know-Who, was responsible. To be fair, if you didn't know that Sirius was innocent, it did make a certain amount of sense.