The Lestranges

[Catlady]

Amy Z wrote on the main list:
> SML wrote:
> > Wouldn't it be awesome if Florence was the girl Snape
> > loved, and she became MRS. LESTRANGE!  Doubly intriguing.

> Can't be.  Mrs. Lestrange's first name is Amanita.  ;-)
> (NB:  that was a FANFIC reference to our own Pippin/foxmoth/Rosemary).

Yes, but I had already named Mrs. Lestrange Damiana (nee de Ledesma)
when Pippin revealed that name, so I made Amanita the daughter, same age
as Our Heroes. There is no evidence in Canon that the Lestranges have a
child, but there is so much to wonder about if they did.

For example, with both parents in Azkaban, she must have been raised by
foster parents. I have wondering whether the Ministry would ignore the
situation, just leaving it to relatives to find some place for the
child, or if the Ministry would make a big point of putting her in a
Politically Correct (old sense of word) family, or would the ministry
stand by to find a decent home for the child IF relatives didn't come
through?

If she was raised in a Hufflepuff or Ravenclaw or Gryffindor home, would
she have a Hufflepuff or Ravenclaw or Gryffindor personality rather than
Slytherin?

Would her foster parents change her name because the name Lestrange
reminds everyone who hears it of the terrible criminals who attacked
good old Frank Longbottom, and make embarrassing comments?

I have been thinking about if she was raised by Damiana's sister &
brother-in-law, who are Death Eaters who walked free... surname
Mandeville-Crewel...
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