[HPforGrownups] The ethics of Veritaserum

[Janet Anderson]

No: HPFGUIDX 49324

Joanne asked:

>Does the theft of a few potion ingredients really warrant this
>response? It's one thing to search a student's possessions with
>probable cause, but it is quite another to search that student's
>mind. Really creepy.
>
>And why in the world does Snape walk around with Veritaserum in his pocket?

I believe I can answer that. Snape doesn't walk around with Veritaserum in 
his pocket. What he does do is lie like a rug in order to scare a student he 
doesn't like. He's always doing this; he threatens to poison people more 
than once in his class, but as far as I know, he has never actually done so. 
(And I suspect that if someone like Clueless Neville managed to poison 
himself, he'd be right there with an antidote.

Snape may be obnoxious but he's not stupid. He knows what he can get away 
with and what would get him the Dumbledore Smackdown.


Janet Anderson


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