From: tsbrueni@gmail.com   
      
   On Saturday, August 1, 2020 at 5:31:33 PM UTC-7, Igenlode Wordsmith wrote:   
   > On 1 Aug 2020 Timothy Bruening  wrote:   
   >   
   > >The fake Moody says that many of Lord Voldemort's followers claimed   
   > >that they had been under the influence of the Imperiatis Curse when   
   > >they did his bidding.  The problem was how to sort out the liars.  This   
   > >means that Truth Serum (which Snape would threaten Harry with later   
   > >that same movie) must not yet have been invented!  Otherwise, it would   
   > >have been used to sort out the liars!   
   >   
   > Presumably Legilimency could also have been used to detect who was   
   > lying?   
   > It may have been a question of scalability in both cases, e.g. if Truth   
   > Serum is slow/expensive and difficult to produce (that is, if it   
   > requires some extremely rare ingredients, or part of the procedure   
   > involves leaving it to mature for twelve months before the next stage   
   > can be completed) it may not be practical to employ it on everyone you   
   > arrest. And if there are not many skilled Legilimens around (and they   
   > tend to have other important jobs to do), then having one sit in on   
   > every low-level interview of an alleged collaborator may not be a   
   > priority either.   
      
   Yet Snape had enough that he could casually threaten Harry with it!   
      
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