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[ghinghapuss]

No: HPFGUIDX 87409

 Kneasy wrote:
> Just to throw another possibility into the fray (and hopefully add 
a bit more
> backbone to my argument), don't forget Voldy is a practiced 
Legilimens.
> He knows when someone is lying to him (remember the showdown at the
> climax of PS/SS?).
> 
> Given his array of interrogation tools I can't see Sirius holding 
out for long. 
> 
> 
Mandy here:

I don't think you are giving the Order justice.  I know your talking 
about Sirius (who I do agree was a very selfish man) but he was a 
member of the Order of the Phoenix during the 1st WW war. An 
organized resistance movement whose members would have been trained 
in dealing with capture and torture.  Members were being picked of 
one-by-one and the rest would have had to protect and arm themselves 
anyway they could.  They would have been down right stupid not to 
learn Occulmency, Imperio Resistance, some method to hide from the 
pain of the Crucio, at least for a while.  Long enough to offer some 
sort of protection to the rest of the Order.

It could explain why the Longbottoms held out for so long and went 
insane, if they were using some for of resistance against the Crucio 
with destroyed their brains.
 
It could also explain why both Sirius and Lupin were adamant about 
Harry continuing to study Occulmency with Snape in OotP.  They 
themselves having studied it for protection years before.

I don't think Sirius would have held out for long against LV power, 
nowone could, but long enough to support K's argument I think.

Mandy