Screams of Pain

[slgazit]

No: HPFGUIDX 112180

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Bex" <hubbarrk at r...> wrote:
> Yb, vocalizing her thoughts:
> 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.

There is no evidence that LV used torture on Bertha. The damage to her
was caused by the spell he used to break the memory charm that Crouch
Sr. placed on her:

LV: "... for -- with a little persuasion -- she became a veritable
mine of information. [deleted] She told me many things... but the
means I used to break the Memory Charm upon her were powerfull, and
when I extracted all usefull information from her, her mind and body
were damaged beyond repair." [ HB U.S. edition GoF, "The Death
Eaters", pp 655 ].

I don't think LV needed to resort to torture to extract information
when he could use Veritaserum and legilimency (and possibly other
sophisticated methods). Torture is not nearly as effective - it was
after all useless when used against the Longbottoms - I think that LV
uses the Cruciatus curse as a means of punishment, not usually for
interrogation.

Salit