[HPforGrownups] Re: OOP - Veritaserum

[T.M. Sommers]

No: HPFGUIDX 69987

xnavyguy73 wrote:
> 
> Perhaps Veritaserum works on the same process as a lie detector, so 
> that what a person believes to be the truth is what is the truth to 
> that person, so if Harry believed that LV was back thats what he 
> would say under the affects of Veritaserum.

If veritaserum made people tell the absolute truth, as opposed to 
what they believed was the truth, then Voldemort could have found 
out about the prophecy (or anything else) by feeding some to any 
random person off the street, and asking that person what was in 
the prophecy.