He sat in a Wizard Council (Wizengamot) court trial, in which accused Azkaban prison convict, Death Eater Igor Karkaroff, presented names of other Death Eaters, including Severus Snape (whom Dumbledore claimed was cleared of charges since he was acting as a spy to bring down Voldemort), and Barty Crouch, Jr, who used the Cruciatus Curse and captured-tortured the Auror Frank Longbottom and his wife (Neville""s parents).A funeral was held at the castle""s pond where a frog chorus sang the Wings"" song "Live and Let Die", as the King in a shoebox (labeled ""Ye Olde Foot Locker"") was placed on a lily pad and floated onto the pond.It seemed to me I stood by the iron gate leading to the drive, and for a while I could not enter for he way was barred to me.He is given encouragement by a whimsical, endearing, trainee-angel named Clarence (Henry Travers).The story turns Dickensian (similar toA Christmas Carol, although told from Bob Cratchit""s point-of-view rather han from Scrooge""s) when the hysterical, despairing, and melancholy family man is shown what the small town (Bedford Falls, now renamed Pottersville after the town""s evil tycoon) would be like without him.