Dumbledore's serious errors & what did he do to make up for it/Harry's trust

[kempermentor]

No: HPFGUIDX 122961



> Pippin wrote:
 <snip> 
> As for veritaserum, we don't know what the side effects are.  
> Crouch Jr doesn't seem to be doing well during his interrogation; 
> his insane smile becomes wider and wider and then he drops 
> into a stupor. Who knows if these effects can be permanent? 
> Dumbledore doesn't ask that veritaserum be used on Hagrid, 
> even though it might establish his innocence.

Kemper now:
I don't think it's side effects that people don't choose to use 
veritaserum.
...I think it's implied that Sirius didn't come to his own defense, 
of plead anything when it came to his trial.  I say implied due to 
his reaction after the duel... laughing hysterically and such when 
the Aurors, or whoever, caught him.
I think Sirius doesn't opt to use Veritaserum nor does DD suggest for 
Hagrid because of the Order.  Sirius under the Veritaserum may have 
offered up secrets of the Order that now, at the end of the fifth 
book, are still secret.  Same with Hagrid.  I think those in the 
Order, and maybe even the DEs, would rather take their time in 
Azkaban then give up their secrets. Three drops is all you need to 
reveal your innermost secrets, supposedly. 
One might ask about the day after that fateful Halloween and how 
there was parties celebrating the apparent destruction of LV, why not 
use veritaserum?  I would say that there were those who thought he 
was not truly dead: the Lestranges, Crouch Jr. and Neville's Gram to 
name a few.  There are things worth dieing for, and there are things 
worth spending time in jail.