Honestly, whatever he said about a delayed or prolonged pain potion can only help her in the aftermath. The pain of Cruciatus is not physical. Not originating in the bones or muscles or organs, though it feels acutely to afflict all of them at once.
The Cruciatus curse affects the mind. And cannot be dulled or escaped.
I've said to Miss Granger on her entry that if we were there, we might find a way to put her in a stasis state and make him think her incapable of suffering that way, but only for the time that would last. And yet, the more I think of it, the more I realise that's a nonsense theory: she would suffer equally well whilst in stasis, because Cruciatus would seize her consciousness without regard to the physical effects of the potions. It would only make her more vulnerable because we'd have trapped her in a body she couldn't control to run, jump, flinch, scream, cry. I'd think that prospect might make Voldemort the more viciously pleased to prolong his torture of her.
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Date: 2011-06-19 12:24 pm (UTC)Honestly, whatever he said about a delayed or prolonged pain potion can only help her in the aftermath. The pain of Cruciatus is not physical. Not originating in the bones or muscles or organs, though it feels acutely to afflict all of them at once.
The Cruciatus curse affects the mind. And cannot be dulled or escaped.
I've said to Miss Granger on her entry that if we were there, we might find a way to put her in a stasis state and make him think her incapable of suffering that way, but only for the time that would last. And yet, the more I think of it, the more I realise that's a nonsense theory: she would suffer equally well whilst in stasis, because Cruciatus would seize her consciousness without regard to the physical effects of the potions. It would only make her more vulnerable because we'd have trapped her in a body she couldn't control to run, jump, flinch, scream, cry. I'd think that prospect might make Voldemort the more viciously pleased to prolong his torture of her.
It's horrible. Too, too horrible.