[HPforGrownups] Re: OOP - Veritaserum

[T.M. Sommers]

No: HPFGUIDX 70162

zebco606 wrote:
> --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "T.M. Sommers" <tms2 at m...> 
> wrote:
>>
>>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"

Exactly; it makes you tell the subjective truth.  That is, you 
tell what you think is true.  That may differ from what is 
objectively true.  If it made you tell the objective truth, then 
you would be telling things that you had no knowledge of.