[HPforGrownups] Letting People Know About Sirius/Pettigrew (Was: Re: Contacting parents)

[izaskun granda]

No: HPFGUIDX 55998

Bill wrote:

If Dumbledore were to have gone public first, then I would think that 
Sirius would at least be given veritasirum first, if only to answer 
any possible doubts in the public mind.

Me:
But veritaserum is not that reliable, Crouch Jr. confessed under its effect and still Fudge refused to believe what he told, because he thought Crouch Jr. was mad and his story was the result of a disturbed mind. "He was a raving lunatic! From what Minerva and Severus have told me, he seems to have thought he was doing it all on You-know-who's instructions". So Sirius version under veritaserum wouldn't be believed, everyone thinks he's mad, the way he reacted after "Pettigrew's death" laughing like a maniac, and after all those years in Azkaban... And DD must be quite aware of it. If Fudge doesn't believe Crouch's version of things, after Cedric's death and Harry's atempted muder, he is certainly not going to believe that Pettigrew has been living as a rat for 13 years, that he's the bad guy while Sirius is inocent. And I don't blame him, it's a quite unbelievable story, isn't it?

Izaskun