[HPforGrownups] Another question about the "Witch Hunts" (Veritaserum)

[IAmLordCassandra at aol.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 47554

In a message dated 12/1/2002 5:06:49 PM Eastern Standard Time, 
kethlenda at yahoo.com writes:

> I've noticed several people discussing the "witch
> hunts" in which the accused Death Eaters were put on
> trial, and the fact that several characters have been
> condemned to Azkaban on very little evidence.  It
> brings to mind a question I've had ever since I first
> read GoF.
> 
> After the fall of Voldemort, it was difficult to tell
> who had really followed him, who was innocent, and who
> was Imperius'ed.  Yet it is in that same book that the
> Veritaserum plays a major role in the plot.  Why
> didn't the Ministry of Magic administer Veritaserum to
> the accused Death Eaters, and get around the whole
> problem of trying to figure out whether they had acted
> of their own free will?  I've come up with a couple of
> possible answers:
> 
> (1) It's an accidental plot hole.
> (2) Only Snape knows how to make it, and either he
> didn't know how to make it yet at that time, or else
> was not trusted with such an important matter.
> (3) Some high muckety-mucks in the MOM didn't *want*
> the whole truth told, because they were afraid their
> own dirty laundry would be aired.
> 
> Any thoughts?

Maybe it wasn't available then...like the wolfsbane potion. 

~Cassie (hopes she won't get killed for the one liner ^^;) 


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