Was Crouch Junior a DE? (was Re: ESE!Fudge)

[ohneill_2001]

No: HPFGUIDX 113607

Hannah wrote:

> (torture the Longbottoms).  OK, that's a subtle difference, but 
> maybe he genuinely believed he could better serve LV by not getting 
> thrown in Azkaban.  It would also explain why he 're-enters' LV's 
> service.  Also, his confession at the end of GoF is made under 
> Veritaserum, under which he cannot lie.  Therefore he must have 
done 
> the things that he's claiming.  

Now Cory:

I was thinking the same thing, but there's a problem.  We know that a 
person under Veritaserum cannot lie, and we also know that a person 
under the Imperius curse is controlled by the person who cursed 
them.  If I'm not mistaken, however, we do not know how these two 
interract with one another.  Thus, *perhaps* (and I'll admit that 
this is speculation), the effects of Veritaserum might be "trumped" 
by the effects of Imperius -- meaning a person under Imperius could 
say something that was untrue after being given Veritaserum if it was 
the Imperius curse that caused them to do so.

Thoughts?

--Cory