Private message to Seamus and Padma
Friday, 26 December 2014 10:04![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
alt_hydraSeamus, did Uncle Stephen tell you what happened at MLE?
Padma, I know that you helped Seamus break the warding on Longbottom's notebook so I'm writing this to you, too.
He was a traitor, but there's no way of knowing how deeply involved he was. He'd had or was at least capable of having communication with Severus Snape, and he'd had face to face contact with his parents, as well. Someone also taught him occlumency well enough to very nearly withstand my mother's interrogation. When she left to search for the Headmaster's report on Longbottom, she instructed me to practise my own interrogation methods on him.
You know how they say to never cruciate someone for longer than 10 seconds? I don't know, but 10 seconds just wasn't enough to break through his occlusion. But I discovered if I went just a little bit longer, he'd start to crumble. And then he crumbled too far.
I mean to say, he's gone now. His mind, I mean. He's just a shell of who he was. So I guess that's what happens if you cruciate someone for more than 10 seconds, over and over again.
Mummy was furious with me, understandably. We did a lesson on how to hit the line between "too far" and "just far enough." That's why I wasn't able to report to you before today. I was still in bed, recovering.
Anyway, I hope you both had a good holiday. Will I see you at the St. Mungo's Charity Ball?
From,
Hydra
Padma, I know that you helped Seamus break the warding on Longbottom's notebook so I'm writing this to you, too.
He was a traitor, but there's no way of knowing how deeply involved he was. He'd had or was at least capable of having communication with Severus Snape, and he'd had face to face contact with his parents, as well. Someone also taught him occlumency well enough to very nearly withstand my mother's interrogation. When she left to search for the Headmaster's report on Longbottom, she instructed me to practise my own interrogation methods on him.
You know how they say to never cruciate someone for longer than 10 seconds? I don't know, but 10 seconds just wasn't enough to break through his occlusion. But I discovered if I went just a little bit longer, he'd start to crumble. And then he crumbled too far.
I mean to say, he's gone now. His mind, I mean. He's just a shell of who he was. So I guess that's what happens if you cruciate someone for more than 10 seconds, over and over again.
Mummy was furious with me, understandably. We did a lesson on how to hit the line between "too far" and "just far enough." That's why I wasn't able to report to you before today. I was still in bed, recovering.
Anyway, I hope you both had a good holiday. Will I see you at the St. Mungo's Charity Ball?
From,
Hydra
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2014-12-26 18:00 (UTC)Anyway, it was quite something that you turned Longbottom in, after everything that happened between you two. There's really so many ways to think about it.
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2014-12-26 18:03 (UTC)I expect you could say the same.
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2014-12-26 18:15 (UTC)You weren't, but that doesn't mean you can't do what's right.