Bellatrix as 'Bella'

[catherinemckiernan]

No: HPFGUIDX 69387

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "kwilson1003" <delineate at h...>
wrote:
> --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Doriane" <delwynmarch at y...> 
> wrote:
> > sibel_saya wrote:
> > > While rereading OOP, something struck me as rather strange.
> > > In the chapter The Only One He Ever Feared, when Voldemort comes 
> > > back finding Bellatrix and Harry, Voldemort calls 
> Bellatrix 'Bella' 
> > > twice (p716-717 UK Edition).
> > > 
> > > Now surely this is a sign of affection from Voldemort, something 
> we 
> > > haven't seen before. He calls all the other DEs by their last 
> names 
> > > at the end of GoF, except for Lucius Malfoy, whom he calls 
> Lucius. 
> > 
> 
> I kind of agree.  There is a part in the battle scene where Harry 
> first mentions Voldemort's name and she licks her lips.  A ship 
> between them sounds way too horrible to me and I can't imagine it in 
> this nice light of day, but there's something very sick and twisted 
> about Bellatrix.  Whether there is any return of affection from 
> Voldemort I don't know (and rather doubt) but I can definitely 
> imagine Bellatrix lusting after him.
> 
> Karen

Horrible as it is to contemplate, there is actually a ship for this at
FictionAlley. SIgned up as I am, I still prefer to think of them
having nuclear physics rather than chemistry - dangerous and exciting,
bu8t less messy.

Catherine McKe