"Your teacher is lying to you," Serenus replied matter-of-factly. "It hurts like hell. Not as bad as the Cruciatus, according to Severus, but it's still pretty bad. The one consolation for me was that I had to have a C-section, so once they gave me the potion to knock me out, I was all right. Stoned out of my mind and whittering about how much I loved everyone, but all right," he added with a grin.