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   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 [...] 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.   
      
   Trust in the Legilimens may have also been an issue. Someone who has taken   
   Truth Serum can make a statement in front of an entire courtroom, leaving   
   little room for doubt about their truthfulness or for disagreement afterward   
   on what they said. But if you're using a Legilimens to "read someone's   
   mind," you're putting all of your trust not only in their skill but also in   
   their fidelity. If the Legilimens simply lied about what they found in the   
   suspect's mind, no one would have been the wiser.   
      
   Setting aside the question of whether an Occlumens could have sailed through   
   this kind of interrogation [1], the atmosphere of mistrust that followed   
   Voldemort's fall might have made it politically unviable for the Ministry to   
   assume that any particular Legilimens was trustworthy. (And getting multiple   
   Legilimens involved in minor cases starts to fall on the wrong side of the   
   cost-benefit tradeoff, like you say.)   
      
      
   [1] If someone had the mental and magical strength to use Occlumency in this   
   way--and if they were widely known to have such strength--it may have   
   strained credulity for them to claim to have been put under the Imperius   
   Curse. Of course, that in itself doesn't seem like it should be sufficient   
   to send someone to Azkaban.   
      
   Benjamin   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)