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

[Amanda Lewanski]

No: HPFGUIDX 19562

JamiDeise at aol.com wrote:

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

Dumbledore requested "the strongest you have" or something to that
effect, when he told Snape to go get it. We have been given to
understand that Snape's a pretty damned good potions brewer. For
something like Veritaserum, I'm betting that there's "grades" of it, and
the best stuff, the absolute you-can-trust-it, comes only from potions
brewers of Snape's caliber. Plus, it may well take eons to make, and be
vanishingly rare to come across. Not something you can slosh out like
ginger ale.

I think this may be a part of the reason Fudge can, well, fudge with
accepting the accounts of Crouch Jr.'s confession--that all
Veritaserum-produced testimony is suspect, since it's not 100%--even
though Dumbledore's Veritaserum was produced by Snape, an acknowledged
master. This may be why Dumbledore still wanted Crouch around to
testify.

I hope that made sense.

--Amanda, who's been shopping all day with her bow-head five-year-old


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