Snape, Sirius, and veritaserum

[Elizabeth Dalton]

No: HPFGUIDX 32545


> From: Jennifer Boggess Ramon <boggles at earthlink.net>

> >Why not use Veritaserum or the Pensieve as evidences
> >for Harry's account at the end of book 4? And to clear
> >Sirius as well.
> 
> They never used it on Sirius because he never got a trial.  No one 
> will take the idea of his innocence seriously enough to try it on him 
> now.  (Although, now that he and Snape are 'on the same team,' it 
> wouldn't suprise me if Snape demands that Sirius submit to it 
> privately to convince him.)
> 

I bet it would cut both ways. Neither of them trusts the other, and after all, 
Snape *was* a DE. I can just see them both "drunk" on veritaserum, telling each 
other *exactly* what they think, with Dumbledore trying to referee and 
McGonnagal trying to keep her straight face....

Elizabeth
(very much wishing Rowling would write about the teacher's lives after she's 
done with Harry, but knowing she probably won't....)