Por que o Ministério não usou o Veritaserum para questionar criminosos? [duplicado]

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A poção da verdade (Veritaserum) é uma das poções mais poderosas que força o bebedor a falar a verdade. Então, por que o Ministério não usou isso em nenhum caso criminal em vez de longas discussões e procedimentos? Eu sei que existem antídotos para a poção (Dumbledore diz a Harry no sexto livro, "Slughorn poderia estar carregando antídoto para veritaserum desde que perguntei a ele sobre a memória"), mas por que não manter criminosos sob custódia até o efeito de o antídoto se desgasta e depois os faz beber veritaserum. Isso não resultará em julgamento perfeito?

    
por prakhar londhe 23.10.2015 / 09:29

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Por motivos não muito diferentes dos motivos pelos quais não usamos detectores de mentiras em julgamentos criminais.

Jo Rowling respondeu isso diretamente:

Veritaserum works best upon the unsuspecting, the vulnerable and those insufficiently skilled (in one way or another) to protect themselves against it. Barty Crouch had been attacked before the potion was given to him and was still very groggy, otherwise he could have employed a range of measures against the Potion - he might have sealed his own throat and faked a declaration of innocence, transformed the Potion into something else before it touched his lips, or employed Occlumency against its effects. In other words, just like every other kind of magic within the books, Veritaserum is not infallible. As some wizards can prevent themselves being affected, and others cannot, it is an unfair and unreliable tool to use at a trial.

Sirius might have volunteered to take the potion had he been given the chance, but he was never offered it. Mr. Crouch senior, power mad and increasingly unjust in the way he was treating suspects, threw him into Azkaban on the (admittedly rather convincing) testimony of many eyewitnesses. The sad fact is that even if Sirius had told the truth under the influence of the Potion, Mr. Crouch could still have insisted that he was using trickery to render himself immune to it.

Fonte: link

    
23.10.2015 / 09:57