Screams of Pain

Bex hubbarrk at rose-hulman.edu
Mon Sep 6 14:38:20 UTC 2004


No: HPFGUIDX 112171

Becki is wondering:
> During Priori Incantatem in the graveyard, it goes as follows; 
> (and the parenthesis is my interpretation of what it is, feel free 
> to correct me if I am wrong...)
> 
>  1. "Screams"   (LV crucio of Harry)
> 
>  2. "Wormtails Hand"   (Silver Hand given to Wormtail by LV)
> 
>  3. "Shouts of Pain"   (LV crucio of Wormtail)
> 
>  4. "Cedric" 
> 
>  5. "Screams of Pain"   (?)
> 
>  6. "Frank Bryce"
> 
>  7. "Bertha Jorkins"
> 
>  8. "Lily"
> 
>  9. "James"
> 
>  My questions are for numbers 5 and 7.
> 
> In #5, who are those screams of pain?  I have read GoF many times 
> and in my quick go-over to research this question, I could not 
find 
> anything.  My curiosity was sparked by another's post of why was 
> there nothing in the PI referring to LV's AK on Harry?  If there 
is 
> nothing in cannon describing what #5 screams were, perhaps it is a 
> *flint* and #5 should be between Lily and Bertha, perhaps 
> LV's "screams of pain".  He did describe the rebounding curse as 
> being "pain beyond pain",  (GoF, 653, AM), why would screams not 
> come out of the PI?
> 
> On to my other question, #7.  Shouldn't there be screams here?  
> Before LV killed Bertha, he tortured her so badly that "her mind 
and 
> body were both damaged beyond repair", (GoF, 655, AM).  (The 
> word "torture"  came from Barty Jr. in Vertiaserum).
> Unless he used another form of torture, but in cannon, there are 
> only 3 unforgivable curses, I would think that any form of 
torture, 
> especially one that could break through a very powerful memory 
> charm, would be classified as unforgivable.

Yb, vocalizing her thoughts:
The other screams (#5) were from Wormtail. He screwed up and let old 
Barty get away from him, so Voldemort exacted a little punishment. 
(GoF, AmVer, Chap. 29, p. 577.) As for Bertha and #7, I never 
thought about it before, but perhaps Wormtail did the 
actual /torture/, using his own wand or maybe LV used a different 
wand, instead of his own. People have remarked that wands seem to 
disappear when Wormtail is around, so perhaps a different wand was 
used.

~Yb





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