[HPforGrownups] Veritaserum thoughts

[anakinbester]

No: HPFGUIDX 44708

Eric Wrote:


>_We don't know_ right now why they didn't just pump everybody they 
thought 
>was guilty full of Veritaserum during the Voldemort Wars. Come to 
it, we 
>don't know that the good guys invented the stuff---there are a few 
hints 
>that Professor Snape himself invented it, and if so, he could have 
been 
>working for the Big V when he did so, and just brought the knowledge 
along 
>when he swapped sides. 

That's an interesting theory, and it somewhat makes sense to me. A 
truth serum as strong as Veitaserum seems to parallel the imperious 
curse somewhat. 
The person loses the will to do anything else but answer _any_ 
question truthfully. You can't order the person around obviously, but 
that is still a terrible loss of control. I know it's Britain and 
all, but I hope the American wizards would not _ever_ use it in a 
trail because that violates the 5th amendment in which it says "nor 
shall [a person] be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness 
against himself," (Since I don't know any of the legal code outside 
the US I don't know if there's a similar law in Great Britain) 
Also, that has the terrible ability to be used. It must be an 
extremely controlled potion, and I wonder why Snape had some in his 
office actually. 
 
Anyways, to me the use of veritasuerm as definite overtones of dark 
magic because it negates a person's will like that. Not that the good 
wizards can't make dark spells, but it does seem more likely that it 
would be the invention of a dark wizard (or Snape, who's not a dark 
wizard... I don't think...) .
And Voldemort would certainly have use for such an invention. That 
makes interrogation so much easier and efficient. 

(this ends my on topic reply, below is a brief introduction)

.......................
I go by Ani or Anakin Bester online, and I'm a college student, 
majoring in painting and drawing at the University of North Texas, 
but hoping to be an illustrator. I've only had two paying jobs so 
far, though. 

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I also have an extremely odd interest in Peter Pettigrew which caused 
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http://anakinbester.tripod.com/peter.htm (yes I had that much spare 
time the first week of school)

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