Torture (was: Sectumsempra)

[eggplant107]

No: HPFGUIDX 161543

"a_svirn" <a_svirn at ...> wrote:

> I don't think that anyone else could have 
> saved Draco,[from Sectumsempra] since it's
> Snape's invention and it is probably
> unknown in the WW.

I that's probably true.

> All in all it [Sectumsempra] looks like
> a more serious affair than Crusatius.

I very strongly disagree. Sectumsempra causes physical damage so
eventually it will kill you and thus set you free. Crusatius by
contrast will not kill you but it will make you wish it did. It will
put you in hell and do so indefinably. That is dark, that is evil,
that is true horror. I am incapable of imagining anything worse.
Fortunately.  

> Muggle torture is a messy business and 
> the actual pain is only part of the problem.
> The worst of it is that survivals suffer
> from damage, both physical and mental,
> long after the event if not forever. By
> contrast it's really preposterous how 
> in the WW people just shrug and go about 
> their business as soon as the curse is lifted.

A shrug? The Crucatius Curse drove Neville's parents insane and they
were far far from wimps, they were brave and mighty Aurors. Granted
Harry received the curse several times and remained sane but few would
deny he was exceptional, and I don't think even Harry was unaffected
by the experience. When you hurt so bad you want to die, well, you
tend to remember that.

Eggplant