Where is the other Lestrange?

[justcarol67]

No: HPFGUIDX 85251

Allie wrote:
> > We saw Bellatrix in OoP over and over, and we know all about her 
> > heavy-lidded eyes... but wasn't there a husband?  At the end of 
> GoF,  Voldemort says that they're in Azkaban ("the Lestranges"), and 
> we never hear that one of them has died.  So where is he?  And is he 
> > also completely insane?  :)  
> > 
> > Allie
> 
> 
> Erin wrote:
> That would be Rodolphus Lestrange.  Harry notices him on the tapestry 
> at Sirius's house.  He broke out of Azkaban with the others.  He was 
> present at the MoM battle and was arrested as a DE again.  If he is 
> as crazy as Bellatrix, he's a lot quieter about it.


There's also a third Lestrange, Rodolphus's brother Rabastan, who was
arrested with them twelve years earlier, along with Barty Crouch, Jr.,
for performing the Cruciatus curse on the Longbottoms. Oddly, LV
doesn't seem to mention him in the Death Eater scene in GoF (IIRC,
there's a space large enough for two, not three, people where the
Lestranges ought to be standing), but Rabastan also participated in
the battle in the Department of Mysteries (OoP 788, American edition),
so obviously he was also freed in the Azkaban breakout.

So far he's been little more than a name, indistinguishable from his
brother except for Rodolphus's marriage to Bellatrix, but I'm sure
he'll play a role in Book 6 or 7. Maybe Rabastan is the baby-headed DE
and Rodolphus will seek revenge against Harry because of him. Or maybe
he'll emerge as an independent personality. It's impossible to say
anything except that it's a safe bet he's in the book for a reason.
BTW, I've noticed several pairs of brothers (not counting the Weasley
twins, who are part of a larger set and in any case are virtually
indistinguishable): Sirius and Regulus Black, Colin and Dennis
Creavey, Rodolphus and Rabastan Lestrange. I think there's a motif or
pattern here, but I have no idea what it is.

Carol