You use cruciatus on someone, they'll swear they saw Sirius Black trading Chocolate Frog cards with their upstairs neighbor, if they think saying so will get you to stop.
Legilimency helps a bit, sorting out the true from the false, but sometimes it just means they convince themselves what they're telling you is true. And then you've got leads galore, all of which have to be checked out, most of which will turn out to be utter rubbish.
Everyone taken that first night was tortured. Most of them didn't know anything. But they'd all confessed by the end to knowing whatever they thought the Aurors wanted to hear. Some of them even confessed to being part of the Order. The rest, well, the Crimsons got a lot of press recently, and there's always Dogstar. IMA. You know.
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You use cruciatus on someone, they'll swear they saw Sirius Black trading Chocolate Frog cards with their upstairs neighbor, if they think saying so will get you to stop.
Legilimency helps a bit, sorting out the true from the false, but sometimes it just means they convince themselves what they're telling you is true. And then you've got leads galore, all of which have to be checked out, most of which will turn out to be utter rubbish.
Everyone taken that first night was tortured. Most of them didn't know anything. But they'd all confessed by the end to knowing whatever they thought the Aurors wanted to hear. Some of them even confessed to being part of the Order. The rest, well, the Crimsons got a lot of press recently, and there's always Dogstar. IMA. You know.