Why Veritaserum was ot used at Sirius' trial?.

[eggplant107]

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> To tell you the truth, now I am wondering even more whether non-use 
> of Veritaserum was a plot hole. 

I know a  plot hole when I see one,and in no way is that a plot hole!
I am not the slightest bit surprised that Veritaserum was not used at
Sirius' trial. In the first place Sirius never had a trial, in the
second place finding the truth was never an important consideration by
the cowardly, corrupt and moribund Ministry Of Magic. A dozen people
were murdered and the public demanded somebody to blame and the
Ministry supplied the villain, Sirius Black; everybody was happy and
they could all now continue with their pointless dull life. Those
incompetent paper pushers were are not about to say the real culprit
is a guy named Pettigrew and he's free because he outsmarted us. They
probably even managed to convince themselves that Sirius was guilty
but the idea of using Veritaserum would terrify them, they might hear
something they'd rather not know. 

Eggplant