[HPforGrownups] Re: Pensieve - Just a Thought

[Aberforth's Goat]

No: HPFGUIDX 914

> because that would take an eliment of humanity out of the
> interactions, the point is not to know the truth about something but
> for you to trust the other person is telling the truth - can you
> think what it would do to power relations if you expected ppl to have
> a truth serium as a job prerequist? No, I think the danger of using
> it universaly is so great that it is one of those things best left
> to 'police' kind of powers.

Well thought.  I think the principle of freedom and dignity gives the most
satisfying answer to questions about all the varieties of magic Dumbledore
could be using to protect Harry and Hogwarts.

Baaaaaa!

Aberforth's Goat (a.k.a. Mike Gray)
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