She says that to cruciate someone into madness, the key is that you cast the curse and keep it on them continuously for a long period. They teach Aurors to do a ten-second burst but of course in an actual interrogation they don't do just ten-second bursts. Still, if you keep it on someone for ten minutes without respite, fifteen, twenty, it injures their brain badly enough that the person's basically gone. That's what Hydra did to Neville.
Rachel said she'd seen it done. They had one of the Aurors come and demonstrate on a prisoner they didn't need anymore, when she was in training.
Anyway they won't do that by mistake to Ginny. If they did -- there'd be no point in keeping on torturing her.
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She says that to cruciate someone into madness, the key is that you cast the curse and keep it on them continuously for a long period. They teach Aurors to do a ten-second burst but of course in an actual interrogation they don't do just ten-second bursts. Still, if you keep it on someone for ten minutes without respite, fifteen, twenty, it injures their brain badly enough that the person's basically gone. That's what Hydra did to Neville.
Rachel said she'd seen it done. They had one of the Aurors come and demonstrate on a prisoner they didn't need anymore, when she was in training.
Anyway they won't do that by mistake to Ginny. If they did -- there'd be no point in keeping on torturing her.