[HPforGrownups] RE-I don't expect a complete bloodbath and a Question

[srsiriusblack at aol.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 49303

In a message dated 06/01/2003 16:25:40 Eastern Standard Time, 
dopeydora at ntlworld.com writes:


> Why when Sirius Black was caught by the MOM after they thought he killed 
> Wormtail(Peter Pettigrew) and a street full of muggles and betrayed James 
> and Lily was he not given Veritaserum(Truth serum).
> Surely he denied the charges against him?  So it would have been the most 
> logical course of action to take.


Sirius points out that he didn't even have a trial before he was sent to 
Azkaban. I hardly think they would have wasted time with the Veritaserum. 
Basically the MoM wanted someone in Azkaban for the crimes. Sirius looked 
pretty darn guilty on that street. 

( Although there is a mistake in the book - Sirius says he had no trial. 
Dumbledore says he testified at Sirius's trial to the effect that Sirius was 
the Potters' secret keeper--- this has been brought up a few times here...)

-Snuffles
"All men dream: but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty 
recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the 
dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dreams with 
open eyes, to make it possible. This I did."  T.E. Lawrence- Seven Pillars of 
Wisdom


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