I can only assume they are, being wizards (of the particularly smug asshole kind, for the most part), completely ignorant of muggle knowledge that torture produces unreliable results, or believe that magical torture is more effective, or believe that if you just apply enough torture the results improve. But yeah, that's something I'd love to see them get bitten on the ass by a few times.
On the abstract thing, I'm wondering what gives him the high. Clearly, massive blood magic rituals do it for him for quite some time; I'd read this bit as suggesting that crucio also does it for him. Is it specifically magic-causing-suffering that does it? I don't think so, that seems more like Barty's bag and maybe Bella's, and in the wards ritual with Seamus he said that if someone had to die (which was the crux of that) it was better they not suffer, right? Magic-of-power-over-others might be a better read? He misses the challenge of the early days?
(Fuck, now I'm wondering if he gives particular reverence to Set, because as a Setian I'm suddenly going, "If it's a display of strength or a proof of competence to face up to a challenge that he gets off on, um, I... ... suddenly get it. In that kind of awkward, embarassing, 'please knock before coming in next time' kind of way.")
What else gives him the high? (I have weird fantasies of someone coming up with a way of, like, growing crops with "Dark Magic" or at least something else that sends him on a happy trip, and setting him to getting his fix in a way that makes sure nobody in the Protectorate gets scurvy or something. Like the folkloric thing about cursing the basil. Shit, now I want to get the book called "Cursing the Basil" immediately and theorise about Noble Arts Involving Herbology. What the fuck is wrong with my brain? ;) )
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Date: 2013-06-07 01:29 am (UTC)On the abstract thing, I'm wondering what gives him the high. Clearly, massive blood magic rituals do it for him for quite some time; I'd read this bit as suggesting that crucio also does it for him. Is it specifically magic-causing-suffering that does it? I don't think so, that seems more like Barty's bag and maybe Bella's, and in the wards ritual with Seamus he said that if someone had to die (which was the crux of that) it was better they not suffer, right? Magic-of-power-over-others might be a better read? He misses the challenge of the early days?
(Fuck, now I'm wondering if he gives particular reverence to Set, because as a Setian I'm suddenly going, "If it's a display of strength or a proof of competence to face up to a challenge that he gets off on, um, I... ... suddenly get it. In that kind of awkward, embarassing, 'please knock before coming in next time' kind of way.")
What else gives him the high? (I have weird fantasies of someone coming up with a way of, like, growing crops with "Dark Magic" or at least something else that sends him on a happy trip, and setting him to getting his fix in a way that makes sure nobody in the Protectorate gets scurvy or something. Like the folkloric thing about cursing the basil. Shit, now I want to get the book called "Cursing the Basil" immediately and theorise about Noble Arts Involving Herbology. What the fuck is wrong with my brain? ;) )