Monitoring Veritaserum at all seems like something that would be incredibly difficult to do, although I agree that it should somehow be done. How do you monitor something that is "clear, colourless, and odourless and is almost indistinguishable from water"?
I wonder about the ingredients of it, also, as they could assist or hinder in the monitoring of the brewing of Veritaserum. For example, if the ingredients needed to make it are rarer, then apothecaries might be able to make ~assumptions about who might be trying to brew it based on what ingredients they're purchasing.
I think it SHOULD be controlled, but figuring out a fool-proof way to do so would be difficult (and tedious) work. Not to mention that Veritaserum isn't necessarily fool-proof, either, as it gauges the user's own truths (subjectively) and not actual objective information.
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Date: 2012-09-16 06:30 am (UTC)I wonder about the ingredients of it, also, as they could assist or hinder in the monitoring of the brewing of Veritaserum. For example, if the ingredients needed to make it are rarer, then apothecaries might be able to make ~assumptions about who might be trying to brew it based on what ingredients they're purchasing.
I think it SHOULD be controlled, but figuring out a fool-proof way to do so would be difficult (and tedious) work. Not to mention that Veritaserum isn't necessarily fool-proof, either, as it gauges the user's own truths (subjectively) and not actual objective information.
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