Things that puzzle or intrigue me

[evangelina839]

No: HPFGUIDX 68384

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "jacob_brown2000"
<renee16d at n...> 
wrote:
> 
> I had a reply about the DE's Sanity........Clearly you can see that
> Bellatrix is insane as they come. Being crazy dosn't mean you
actually
> forget things or are sub intelligent. The way she talks to Harry as
if
> he were a baby prooves that. When she was inprisoned he was a baby
so
> that's how she sees him in her mind. She still has her general
> knowlege  like spells and people but years in Azkaban has messed up
> her thought process. None of the other DEs who were in Azkaban got a
> big speaking spotlight but I'm sure they are just as loony as her.

Yeah, you're probably right - completely sane they are not. But I
think Bellatrix chose 
to talk to Harry in that voice to mock him, and she probably, like
Umbridge (referring 
to her speech in the Great Hall - all students looking "taken-aback
at being 
addressed as though they were five years old"), think that everyone
who is not fully 
grown is still a child. She underestimated him, clearly, and thought
he wouldn't be 
much of a threat because of his age, but I think she was overdoing it
to show her 
superiority.