FIE!! (Was RE-I don't expect a complete bloodbath and a Question)

[Susan Atherton]

No: HPFGUIDX 49687


dopeydora at ntlworld.com asked:
> 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.

And Snuffles replied:
>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...)


And I screech:
IT WAS FUDGE!!! IT WAS ALL EVIL EVIL CORNELIUS FUDGE!!!! ~near hysteria~

Ahem. ~composes self~

Evil Fudge made sure Sirius did not get the benefit of Veritaserum. (Although possibly Sirius did something daft like confess,as he did to Harry, but I like to think that Fudge Is Evil, so...) Evil Fudge made sure that although Sirius received a trial, it was fixed and Sirius himself never attended it - he was thrown into Azkaban before his trial took place, and Evil Fudge, with his friend NastyYetDetermined!Crouch made sure he stayed there.

Basically? Everything, ever, that ever went wrong - it can all be traced back to Fudge.

~nods in a satisfied fashion, trying not to show her internal fear that OotP will herald the arrival of Good!Fudge~

Susan
who is liking this idea of people being Ever So Evil very much
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