Private message to Justin Finch-Fletchley

[alt_sally_anne]

Do they use cruciatus to punish people at Beauxbatons?

I guess I'm wondering if you've ever seen it done.

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[alt_justin]

Yes, they're a major offence there. Sometimes life imprisonment and sometimes one's wand gets snapped. There have been a few cases where someone's proven a 'justifiable cause' but not bloody well often, what? Pepin told us it was perhaps twice in the last century that an exception was made for someone, and usually that was the Imperius (that's what you call the one that makes one do one's bidding, right?). I think there was one time when someone used the Cruciatus to gain intelligence about someone who'd collaborated with the Nazis and was hiding in France. But that was a truly remarkable case and not likely to be repeated, what?

That's good news about the 'pink parchment' mystery. The way your Professor McGonagall said it I thought surely everyone knew what it meant. Only Hydra didn't either, do you see, although she had heard that it was Miss Calderwood and she guessed it had to do with attacking a Professor.

Now, Sinistra. She's your Dark Arts teacher, then? The rather heavy-set one with chin whiskers? I can well understand the temptation, if so. But plotting to harm a teacher is still rather dire, what, no matter the provocation!

[alt_sally_anne]

No!! Sinistra is our Astronomy Professor and she's one of the nicest teachers at the school.

Alecto Carrow is the Dark Arts professor and she's the one who will be performing the cruciatus curse on Cassandra.

[alt_sally_anne]

Anyway. If you have any questions about it, I've had it done to me, I've seen it done to others, and I've studied in class (I'm in Dark Arts). And you can ask me whatever you want, if you want.

It would be really strange, I think, to have grown up somewhere it was totally illegal and could get you sent to prison (unless you were doing it on a Nazi, maybe) and to go somewhere that it's used as punishment at school.