The truth behind the curses
the unforgivable cursed; the three most powerful and darkest curses known to wizard kind. the use of a single one, just once, could land you a lifetime in Azkaban. they are of couse; the imperius curse, the cruciatus curse and the killing curse. we all know about them and we all know what they do, but, who invented them?
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Cadmus Peverell
Chapter 3
!TW self harm and suicide!
In the story Cadmus is portrade as an arrogant man who wishs to humiliate Death by asking for the power to recall loved ones from the grave'. To this Death responded by pluching a stone from the river and handing it to Cadmus. However he soon descovers that it did not work the way he had hoped; he was able to summon the girl he had hoped to marry in life however she was in constant suffering.
"yet she was sad and cold, separated from him as by a veil. Though she had returned to the mortal world she did not truly belong there and suffered. Finally the second brother, driven mad with hopless longing, killed himself so as truly to join her."
It's pretty clear from that description that, both for the living and the dead, the resurrection stone causes insurfferable pain, even if it's not the kind you'd expect. as Albus Dumbledore once said
"words are, in my not so humble opintion, our most inexhaustiblesource of magic. Capble of both inflicting injury, and remedying it."
Of course, this means that while magic is obviously very powerful, the non-magic words you say to another person can be just as damaging and harmful, or helpful, than even the worst magic.
My point is that the pain felt by Cadmus Peverell and his deceased fiance is not physical pain, but it is non-stop emotional torture which I believe Cadmus was able to turn into a spell, which if directed at another person, could cause them to feel that pain in a very physical way.
But, thus, the cruciatus curse is quite tragic as it isn't about torturing someone else, it's about a way to release your own negitave emotions. Meaning that you truly have to want to cause pain; you have to truly embrace you anger and negative emotions and chanel them through yourself and into another person. When hit with the crusiatus curse it is described as feeling like your actual bones are on fire; you head fels as though it is about to split open; the pain is so severe you want it all to end...to black out...to die. Which is interesting because in the story that's excactly what Death wants and it's excactly how Cadmus felt until the point where he took his own life.