5
The Wizengamot watched, unable to interfere; it was a Family matter, after all. It was an end to a Blood Feud, but one that had never been seen before, and it was sickening.
6
"Why are you doing it this way? It's an abomination!"
He smiled at the querent. "Why, to ensure that, for a while, he understands the punishment, of course. If you just start at the end, well, he won't learn anything.".
7
The boy struggled and twisted, but the chains were far too strong, and far too enchanted, to break.
8
The boy's Regent, his mother, was no longer screaming, but was still desperately trying to break free.
9
One of the Wizengamot members shouted "Stop it! Stop it! It's monstrous!". But the Wizengamot could not stop it; it was entirely within the Law and, normally, considered a lenient punishment. This time, however...
10
A member of the watching Press threw up all over her notes and her Quick-Quote quill. After all she'd written, who'd have thought she would have such a delicate constitution?
11
The castle disappeared, as well as his first meeting with his despised enemy.
12
The boy's mother was doubled over, vomiting and screaming. None could hear, of course, due to the Silence spell. She slammed her head against a chair and, mercifully, passed out.
13
"In Merlin's name, stop this! Show mercy!"
"Why? For all of his youth, he's a Death Eater, he's raped children, and he killed my sons. Where was his mercy to them? Should he be sent to Azkaban? Of course not; you lot have already ruled that such would be excessive."
14
"Look at it this way. I'm not wiping out his family line, even though I have the right. He'll still be able to sire a child in, oh, 15 years or so."
15
The young man, screaming silently, by now had thoroughly soiled himself as he felt himself dying, day by day.
16
The man looked around at the Wizengamot and sneered, saying "I don't know why you're all so upset. You do this regularly to children who are exiled to the muggle world, after all. You just do it all at once.".
17
A four-year-old child in a seventeen-year-old body, bound, gagged, terrified, screaming for his mother...