Another question about the "Witch Hunts" (Veritaserum)

[Strix]

No: HPFGUIDX 47741

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., Audra1976 at a... wrote:
> In a message dated 12/2/02 12:31:36 PM, greywolf1 at j... 
writes:

Now I have no idea how JKR's "Veritaserum" differs from 
Sodium Pentothal.  
> Would Barty Crouch have told everything anyway?  I don't 
remember him saying 
> anything that would have hurt him and his cause too much.  
The things he 
> revealed he did were done and it was too late to do anything 
about it.  He 
> was caught red-handed impersonating Moody, so he couldn't 
very well have 
> feigned innocence again.  So we really don't have any proof 
that Veritaserum 
> forces someone to tell the truth against their will either.
> 
> Audra

Point.    I think I had assumed that the Veritaserum was almost 
completely effective--it's magic after all.   :)   I also figured, if I 
were falsely accused of being a DE and facing a lifetime in 
Azkaban, I probably would have *wanted* to take the stuff to try to 
prove I was innocent...whether that wizard court would have 
listened, of course, is another matter altogether...

Strix