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   Timothy Bruening wrote:   
      
   > 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.   
   >> [snip]   
   >   
   > Yet Snape had enough that he could casually threaten Harry with it!   
      
   This doesn't necessarily contradict the idea that Truth Serum takes a lot of   
   time, money, or other resources to produce. Snape doesn't exactly seem to   
   have a vibrant personal life ;-) Especially before Voldemort came back, it's   
   hard to imagine he had many hobbies other than planning and carrying out   
   mean things he could do to Harry.   
      
   Benjamin   
      
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