I think it's more that they didn't even consider this sort of trauma to be consequential - which is its own brand of horror. I stayed back to discuss it with Poppy, without the children (okay, they're not children but you know what I mean) and she had a deal to say about it.
Actually, it might help you to have details handy with the centaurs. She said that the physical damage required some delicate reconstructive magic, but the trauma was another matter. Apparently in these cases (if you're a pureblood, that is), the family have the opportunity to decide whether to elect Obliviation or to allow the mind a more organic path to healing.
Poppy didn't much like either option, from what she said. I mean to say, in cases like this the impression of what she experienced will have embedded itself deeply and in across the terrain of her mind. Poppy indicated that a complete Obliviation would be needed to remove all chance of being surprised at odd moments by images, sensations, and auditory echoes of what occurred. She said the other option is a series of treatments aimed at erasing the specific shadows of the event - I can only imagine that must be an even longer and more difficult course. Poppy was quick to point out that the Vale of Health is full of people--victims of all sorts of trauma--for whom that hasn't been an adequate help.
But. She reminded me that all sufferers are different and said that Sam might elect to have nothing beyond a basic Obliviation, and then treatment with Tincture of Time. Not all minds make the same thing of events, even ones as distressing as this. The type of mind that thinks it would make a good Death Eater? Probably thinks it can handle something like this.
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Date: 2014-03-25 03:59 pm (UTC)Actually, it might help you to have details handy with the centaurs. She said that the physical damage required some delicate reconstructive magic, but the trauma was another matter. Apparently in these cases (if you're a pureblood, that is), the family have the opportunity to decide whether to elect Obliviation or to allow the mind a more organic path to healing.
Poppy didn't much like either option, from what she said. I mean to say, in cases like this the impression of what she experienced will have embedded itself deeply and in across the terrain of her mind. Poppy indicated that a complete Obliviation would be needed to remove all chance of being surprised at odd moments by images, sensations, and auditory echoes of what occurred. She said the other option is a series of treatments aimed at erasing the specific shadows of the event - I can only imagine that must be an even longer and more difficult course. Poppy was quick to point out that the Vale of Health is full of people--victims of all sorts of trauma--for whom that hasn't been an adequate help.
But. She reminded me that all sufferers are different and said that Sam might elect to have nothing beyond a basic Obliviation, and then treatment with Tincture of Time. Not all minds make the same thing of events, even ones as distressing as this. The type of mind that thinks it would make a good Death Eater? Probably thinks it can handle something like this.
Until it can't.