[HPforGrownups] Re: The Sorting Hat

[Kathryn Cawte]

No: HPFGUIDX 87376


Kneasy
>
> The only way Sirius could avoid all this is to hide in a deep dark hole
and
> not let anyone know where he is and he could do that without involving
Peter.
> With the Imperius curse the idea of bravely holding out becomes
impossible.


K

I'm not sure that you can use Imperius like that - after all we know that
Umbridge was willing to use unforgivables at the school but she insisted she
needed Veritaserum (which seems to be incredibly complicated and time
consuming to brew) in order to get Harry to tell the truth. Also the DEs
would surely have used it on the Longbottoms rather than torture them for
information - not that they might not have been inclined to torture them
afterwards but they were torturing them to get them to reveal information
that they were desperate to have, if a simple Imerio would have got the
answer then they would have used that.

No, we have seen that the DEs use torture to reveal information so it is
logical to assume that that is what they would have used on Sirius and since
they'd have been trying to get information he didn't have it would either
have taken them a lot longer to get the information, because they'd
presumably assume he was lying when he first said he didn't know or they'd
never have got the information because he'd have ended up like the
Longbottoms. I think it would have gone much more along the lines of :
'where are the potters?'
'I don't know.'
'where are the Potters?'
'I don't know'
'Where are the Potters?'
'I'm not the Secret Keeper'
'Liar. Where are the Potters?'

etc etc

K