Sexual Temptaion/Marital Infidelity

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(Snippage) Erin wrote:

> Erin again:
> Well, not to be rude or anything, and I know that this is a popular 
> reading of Bellatrix, but <speaks in small whisper> you do realize 
> that there is absolutely no canon for it, right?  
> 
> The only broken marriage we've actually seen in canon was that of 
Tom 
> Riddle's parents, and Tom Sr. didn't run off with another woman; he 
> moved back in with his own parents.  So there's no evidence 
> whatsoever that infidelity will ever be an issue in the books.
> 

Danielle here:
(still moderated, and hoping this makes the list before someone else 
posts the exact same thing)

Actually, there is one small snippet of marital infidelity mentioned 
in one of JKR's books. I thought it was both funny and out of 
character for her to write it, so I've always remembered it.

This is from a footnote in "Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them," 
page 27:

"The number of Lethifold victims is almost impossible to calculate 
since it leaves no clues to its presence behind it. Easier to 
calculate is the number of wizards who have, for their own 
unscrupulous purposes, pretended to have been killed by Lethifolds. 
The most recent instance of such duplicity occurred in 1973 when the 
wizard Janus Thickey vanished, leaving only a hastily written on the 
bedside table reading "oh no a Lethifold's go me I'm suffocating." 
Convinced by the spotless and empty bed that such a creature had 
indeed killed Janus, his wife and children entered a period of strict 
mourning, which was rudely interrupted when Janus was discovered 
living five miles away with the landlady of the Green Dragon." (end 
quote)

So, yes, she's capable of adding some marital infidelity, even if she 
hasn't done it in the main canon yet.

Danielle
(who has been enjoying this thread immensely)