Winky's presence during Crouch interrogation

[Caius Marcius]

No: HPFGUIDX 24837

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., cynthiaanncoe at h... wrote:
> I have always been puzzled about why JKR has Dumbledore summon 
Winky 
> for Crouch's interrogation.  Here are Winky's lines (abbreviated):
> 
> As far as I can tell, Winky is just making a lot of noise and 
adding 
> nothing of substance.  So why did JKR include her in the scene?  
> Wouldn't it have been better to just do the interrogation and be 
done 
> with it?  Or is there some reason I'm missing that Winky needs to 
be 
> there?  

Good question - of course we don't know much about the effectiveness 
of Veritaserum. Perhaps there are powerful antidotes that can protect 
the subject from the serum's truth-telling effects. If that's the 
case,  Winky may have been included by Dumbledore as a means of 
establishing Crouch's veracity. She probably wouldn;t have so reacted 
to a fictitious account.

  - CMC