ORDER ONLY
Jun. 18th, 2011 11:52 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
alt_frankbeen talking to snape. he said there weren't any easy solutions, that putting up those sorts of barriers takes lots of practice, and that there weren't any easy fixes to this one. he also said that the idea of resisting Him was pretty helpless regardless -- that he suspected only a handful of people could.
he did say he knew how to make a pain potion that had long release so Hermione could take it beforehand, but it could dull her reflexes, which would make her less likely to be able to resist legilimency as well as move quickly should she need to activate her portkey.
he's also been more than a little interested in kingsley and me writing in our journals. hasn't asked about it so far, but you can see the wheels turning.
he did say he knew how to make a pain potion that had long release so Hermione could take it beforehand, but it could dull her reflexes, which would make her less likely to be able to resist legilimency as well as move quickly should she need to activate her portkey.
he's also been more than a little interested in kingsley and me writing in our journals. hasn't asked about it so far, but you can see the wheels turning.
no subject
Date: 2011-06-19 04:03 am (UTC)Sirius, guess you know him best of the three of you. Think he's telling the truth?
no subject
Date: 2011-06-19 04:09 am (UTC)I agree with everything he's saying, I'll give him that.
Still, a skilled Occlumens could probably rig up some sort of protective spell that could be transferred to an object. Might take some trial and error but maybe.
no subject
Date: 2011-06-19 04:12 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-06-19 04:19 am (UTC)doesn't mean we can't try.
I'd say the pain potion might be too dangerous, seeing as how she'll need to keep sharp if she needs to get away quickly, but Hermione, if you want it, you let us know.
my vote is for just using the portkey now, though.
no subject
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.