He has spent the last seven months in solitary confinement – a punishment that causes many prisoners to go mad and which the US National Commission on Prisons called “torturous.”
That highly torturous fluid in the cave that Dumbledore drinks, this was really just some milk thinned down with water and then visually "tweaked" by the CG department.
Aric fed Globe puzzle writers Emily Cox and Henry Rathvon (who also create RD's Word Power column) personal info to be turned into clues, then he waited ... for four torturous months.
Breaking on the wheel was a form of torturous execution formerly in use in France, Germany, Denmark, Sweden, Romania, Russia, the us, and other countries.
Most of the secrets, by the way, are not nearly as torturous as running marathons or drinking urine.
