Screams of Pain

[carodave92]

No: HPFGUIDX 112191

Salit wrote:
> 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 ].
> <snip>
> 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.

I think that LV probably enjoys using the Cruciatus curse and uses 
it even though he can get the same results by another means...I read 
the quote cited above to mean that he tortured Bertha...which is 
what damaged her body beyond repair...and as for the Longbottoms, 
torture wasn't useless - it couldn't work on them, because they 
didn't actually know where LV was...

carodave