Subject: Bellatrix- spoilers for later books in ramble format
Author:
Posted on: 2014-10-09 17:46:00 UTC

(Other Potterheads, feel free to add anything I might have missed.)

Bellatrix is probably the most devoted of Voldemort's followers and is batcrap crazy. She's responsible for Neville's parents being unable to raise them because she, her husband, and Barty Crouch, Jr. tortured the Longbottoms into insanity because they thought the Longbottoms knew where Voldemort was.

As far as I know, because Bellatrix ate up her parents' pureblood ideals, she was actually the favorite child, though Narcissa was also in good standing with their parents. Andromeda was disowned because she married a muggle-born, though.

There's never any indication that Bellatrix's husband (Rodolphus) was ever abusive- in fact, he's kind of in the background when she's in the scene, if he's even there at all. And if he ever tried to abuse him, she'd Crucio the living daylights out of him. Yes, their marriage was arranged, but there was also never any indication in canon that Bellatrix had a problem with it. Though there are a lot of Bellamort fics out there for a reason- think Legolusters, but apply that to Bellatrix about Voldemort. Except not quite as much. Bellatrix worships the ground Voldemort walks on.

"So I did what He expected of me, when Lucius ...ed up it was me who got punished by Him, so that Narcissa didn't have to worry. I became an imposter, I was locked away in Azkaban."

This here? Wrong. Bellatrix got sent to Azkaban because of her involvement in torturing Neville's parents. And when Lucius '...ed up', let me tell you, he fell WAY out of favor with Voldemort.

"Bellatrix Lestrange is getting up from her seat and walks out of the room. The Death Eaters look after her as if she was crazy, they weren't surprised though. Bellatrix was not like anyone else, she did what she wanted and got away with it. Bellatrix decided to take a walk along the Dark Lake, Hogwarts was not a safe place for someone like her but it was the only place that made her feel something. And that was exactly what she needed, some kind of feeling."

And then while she's out there, Hermione's narration says:

"I saw someone sitting on my spot, I came out here to get rid of all my problems and worries even if just for one night."

WRONG WRONG WRONG. The Death Eaters who were 'teaching' at Hogwarts got chased out/incapacitated before the Battle of Hogwarts and Bellatrix was not one of those Death Eaters. What she was doing in Hogwarts in the first place, I have no idea, and Hermione would have been preparing for battle, not strolling along the lake.

Oh, and Bellatrix wearing yoga pants and a blue sweater? She only wears Death Eater robes, which are black. Muggle clothes are a no-no.

And the stuff about Hermione going to an orphanage because her parents didn't want a witch made me tear my hair out.

Bellatrix being self-conscious? Would never happen in a million years. She's a psychopath and she loves killing and torturing.

And lastly, you can't Apparate or Disapparate on the Hogwarts grounds.

Reply Return to messages