JKR's Single Biggest Error - ie: Veritaserum

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>>Alla:
><snip> I guess I will concede that if Sirius admitted that he was 
guilty in betraying the Potters, they did not see the reasons for it.
>BUT if Sirius was saying that he is not guilty, I don't care if 
Prosecution saw no doubt whatsoever, I think it was their obligation 
to give Sirius a chance to tell a truth. :) <

Betsy:
But, Alla, Sirius did not have a trial.  He never had a chance to say 
guilty, not guilty, nothing.  He went straight from the scene of the 
crime to Azkaban.

That's what is so disturbing about Sirius's treatment.  There was no 
Prosecutor, there was no Defense, because there was no trial.  Sirius 
could have downed a whole gallon of Veritaserum and it wouldn't have 
mattered because there was no one around to listen.

Betsy, who is completely chilled by how much power Crouch had and how 
he chose to use it.