The Longbottoms were tortured into “insanity”, but their canon appearance in St. Mungo’s looks far more like brain damage from Cruciatus. And lots of Obliviates seem to cause brain damage as well. Breaking a FMC on Bertha Jorkins in book 4 ended up killing her.
The Longbottoms were tortured into “insanity”, but their canon appearance in St. Mungo’s looks far more like brain damage from Cruciatus. And lots of Obliviates seem to cause brain damage as well. Breaking a FMC on Bertha Jorkins in book 4 ended up killing her.