Things that puzzle or intrigue me

[catherinemckiernan]

No: HPFGUIDX 68666

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "evangelina839"
<evangelina839 at y...> wrote:
> --- 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.

I, too, think the baby voice is mockery. She drops it when Harry
starts to be a serious threat - the stuff about performing the
Cruciatus Curse and her Dark Arts lessons with Voldemort
(cough*euphemism*cough - sorry) are delivered coherently to someone
she's actually realised is a bit of a threat. Mind you, I suspect
she's still a few beans short of Every Flavour. Twelve years in a dark
cell desperately thinking miserable thoughts about failing one's
Master and being betrayed by your friends in an attempt to keep sane
can't be healthy. Wish I could have been a beetle on the wall when she
was reunited with her brother-in-law.


Catherine McK