[HPforGrownups] Re: Fudge - Lockhart - Florences, Slugs - Why Harry Lived...

[Margaret Dean]

No: HPFGUIDX 19544

JamiDeise at aol.com wrote:
> 
> In a message dated 5/26/2001 10:02:14 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
> meboriqua at aol.com writes:
> 
> << The way the law is dealt with in the wizarding world is a very
>  interesting issue.  It seems to me that the MoM often uses "guilty
>  until proven innocent" tactics instead of the other way around.  >> I
> believe that is the British system of law, someone please correct me if I'm
> wrong. But I'm pretty sure that while it's "innocent until proven guilty" in
> the States, in Britain it's "guilty under proven innocent," and the onus is
> on the defendent, not the prosecution.

No, Britain also has the "innocent until proven guilty"
standard.  (Hence the possibility, not to say the popularity, of
mystery novels.)  IIRC, the opposite =was= true in France at
least at one time.  Does anyone know for sure?

<snip> 

> I can't understand why they weren't all just given the Veritaserum.

Maybe Veritaserum is a relatively new development, like the
Wolfsbane Potion?


--Margaret Dean
  <margdean at erols.com>