Why the Veritaserum theory is all wet (and a bit back to the Sirius vs. Snap

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No: HPFGUIDX 34883

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "Liz Sager" <ChaserChick at h...> wrote:
> I agree. He is a competent teacher and intelligent human, but his 
> predjudices (against Harry and co., etc.) sometimes get in the way 
of his 
> judgement and make him look like a...well, a not very nice and very 
> judgemental person.

And prejudice is not right. Presume innocent until proven guilty. 
We've seen Snape break against this all the time. Sirius would not. 
Not with his experience of being the falsely accused.
Only thing against this is Sirius vs. Krum, but...

He doesn't wish Harry to go near Krum because 1# It's a fact that 
*someone* is playing tricks and managed to get Harry into the tri-
wizard competitions *as fourth*, possibly to get Harry killed.
2# Unfair tricks ARE always played around the race.
3# Krum does know how to perform Unforgiveable Curses.
4# The One who put Harry's name into the cup, could as well put 
Imperius on Krum in order to get Krum kill/torture Harry...

Quite: Snape would do that - and it's very much possible that Snape 
already knew everything *except* how to calm Whomping Willow. Then he 
tricked Sirius to tell him. (Pretending he knew, acting smug, 
doubting if Sirius knew - so that Sirius would have been VERY 
provoked to tell him that!)