Lestranges' crime

[Meg]

No: HPFGUIDX 8738

--- In HPforGrownups at egroups.com, Firebolt <particle at u...> wrote:
> It never actually says that they were the Lestranges, though most 
people think they
> are because of the woman's fanaticism speech, and the fact that we 
know they're in
> Azkaban.
> 
> ~Firebolt
> 


Delurking:
At the end of GoF, in the scene in the graveyard, Voldemort 
says "[The Lestranges] are entombed in Azkaban.  They were faithful.  
They went to Azkaban rather than renounce me."  At the time, 
Voldemort was walking around the circle venting his spleen at various 
death eaters who had denied him when he lost his powers.  I got the 
impression that, when Voldemort said that the Lestranges didn't 
renounce him, he was trying to shame the Death Eaters who had 
pretended that they were under the Imperius Curse during Voldemort's 
reign by casting them up the the Lestranges, who had tried to find 
him even after all of his powers were gone.  The Lestranges didn't 
pretend that they weren't on Voldemort's side.  They were proud of 
their faithfulness to Voldemort and weren't afraid of the 
consequences, so they tried to find him even after all of his powers 
were gone and went to Azkaban rather than renounce him.  From this 
scene, I got the impression that the Lestranges were the couple that 
Harry saw in the Pensive with Crouch, Jr.
Meg