[HPforGrownups] Veritaserum

[Amanda Lewanski]

No: HPFGUIDX 19572

AAAGH. The editor made a glaring grammatical typo. Great stars, I must
be tired. Five points to the houses of whoever spots it and *doesn't*
trumpet it to the skies, eh?

--Amanda, still glazed from her day of shopping and the amount she just
paid for Birkenstocks

Amanda Lewanski wrote:

> Or maybe we should take a clue from Snape's opening speech. Perhaps he
> is such a bitter man because he is a master of an undervalued art.
> Responses and testimony obtained via a potion may be simply less
> "trusted" or perceived as valid, than the same obtained via an
> outright spell. Sort of the way the participants in our legal system
> once perceived DNA evidence and other tests now considered
> incontrovertible.
> It may simply be that Veritaserum isn't used, or trusted completely
> when it is used (without alternate confirming evidence), because it's
> "just" a potion. [Combined with the thought that the serum can be of
> varying strengths, i.e., reliability in overcoming resistance to its
> effects, I
> can see why it's use is not automatic confirming evidence.]
>
> --Amanda


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