Veritaseum

[supergirl1024]

No: HPFGUIDX 31316

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., Chelsea2162 at a... wrote:
> I was thinking about the trial or Barty Crouch Jr., and Sirius' 
lack of one, 
> when i came upon a huge question. If the wizarding world has 
Veritaseum (i 
> hope I'm spelling this correctly) then why don't they just use it 
to find out 
> if someone's guilty of committing a crime or not? All anyone had to 
do (or 
> could do now) would be to give Sirius a few drops of Veritaseum, 
and then ask 
> him what really happened on the day that he faced off with Peter 
(that rat!). 
> Doesn't this seem logical? This way, Sirius would be free, and 
Peter would be 
> found and prosecuted. Does this make snese to anyone else, or am i 
missing 
> anything?

It sounds logical, tho i would imagine it would be up to the 
defendent...while falsities may be abolished by Veritaserum, other 
truths might be revealed of a personal nature...for example, the fact 
that Sirius is an unregistered animagi, or that Barty Crouch 
regularly attended strip clubs.  However, I would expect people as 
desperate as Sirius to be willing to try Veritaserum, and convicted 
Death Eaters to be forced to take Veritaserum to divulge the 
whereabouts of Voldemort.  I don't know.  Anyone else?  T.