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

[Suzanne Chiles]

No: HPFGUIDX 49309


Jim Ferer said:

> If Veritaserum is infallible, then why isn't it used in every case?
> They could have given it to Barty Jr.13 years before the Goblet of
> Fire to find out if he was a DE or not, or to Hagrid to see if he was
> letting the monster out of the Chamber of Secrets. Is there wizard law
> affecting the ability to use Veritaserum examinations as evidence?
> Otherwise there's not one, but a whole series of plot holes.

Perhaps it is against wizard law, in the same way that sodium pentathol
can't be used to coerce the truth from people who are being tried for crimes
in the US. On the other hand, though, it's not hard to imagine that in a
time of terror, that certain laws are conveniently overlooked in the desire
to stop the terrorists.

But from what we have learned so far about the Voldemort reign of terror,
there wasn't too much use for the civil rights of wizards who stood accused.
In fact, I wouldn't be surprised to find out later on that Sirius wasn't the
only innocent wizard to be put in Azhakban.

I also suspect that the aurors, who were pretty much given a free reign
during this time, were completely believed once they turned over someone as
a Voldemort supporter. I doubt if Sirius was the only one to not get a
trial.

Suzanne