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.


Alla:

Ummm, Betsy, I said in my previuous posts that I know about Sirius 
having no trial :o).

Nevertheless, I don't think that it is a given that no investigation 
whatsoever was conducted. I will grant you that it is a strong 
possibility that exactly that happened, but unless I forgot 
something vital ( and then I will eat my words :o)), I don't 
remember canon statting with absolute certainty that no 
investigation happened.

In fact, I believe that Dumbledore giving evidence alludes to the 
opposite conclusion - that SOME kind of hearing occurred.

Do I think that was sufficient investigation? NO, of course not. Let 
me repeat again - I don't like WW justice system at all.


But with whatever investigation they had , even if Sirius only 
proclamation of innocence was when aurors were leading him away, I 
think that Veritaserum should have been used,

Betsy: 
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.


Alla:

I agree with you that Sirius' treatment WAS incredibly disturbing. I 
do disagree though that we know for a fact that nothing was 
investigated.


JMO of course,

Alla