The Future Mrs Lestrange...

[carolynwhite2]

Could I just issue a word of warning about coding Florence and 
Bellatrix prior to OOP...

It's difficult to remember now, but there used to be a lot of 
theories about who Mrs Lestrange was, somewhat memorably summarised 
by CatLady below [35381]. 

Because of all this, it is often necessary to decide whether, when 
they say 'Florence', they really mean Bellatrix. And be careful, 
Florence can also be Mrs Norris's first name, too. Nearly any female 
character, whether human or not, can also be having simultaneous 
affairs with Filch, Snape and Sirius.

Oh for the good old days. Someone tell Lupinlore.

Carolyn

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I don't think Mrs. Lestrange's first 
name was Florence, unless JKR had a vicious personal enemy named 
Florence who gave her all kinds of bad connotations on the name, and 
I don't think Sirius was involved with the future Mrs. Lestrange 
(okay, maybe for a quicky, as I'm one of those who consider her 
Dead(ly) Sexy), but it *could* be that Mrs. Lestrange didn't care 
about purity of blood and wasn't especially into physical sadism, but 
simply became addicted to the pursuit of immortality, and believed 
that a good bit of killing was needed for that goal. 

If someone kissing Florence behind the greenhouses has to be 
essential to the plot (and I admit that JKR does drop Clues), and 
the way in which she must be essential is to explain The Prank, she 
could have been Sirius's KID SISTER, sneaking around behind Sirius's 
back with Sirius's enemy Severus. When Sirius heard from Bertha, he 
would have had words with Sis (he would start by telling her that 
she's too young and innocent to recognise a Bad Man who intends to 
harm her, and end up roughly washing her so she can learn the value 
of cleaniness and not touch anything so GREASY) and fisticuffs with 
Severus. Then when he soon (days) after ran into Severus trying to 
get into the Whomping Willow tunnel, they were all primed to have a 
quarrel in which Sirius became angry enough to tell him which bump to 
press to quiet the Whomping Willow.