OOP - Veritaserum

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No: HPFGUIDX 70014

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "T.M. Sommers" <tms2 at m...> 
wrote:
> 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.

Wait a minute, Veritaserum might make a person tell the absolute 
truth, but wouldn't it have to be the absolute truth that they KNOW? 
The random person on the street, on Veritserum, would have to answer 
about the prophecy "I have no idea what you're talking about"

dorothy