"The Animagus Black!"

[Dicentra spectabilis]

No: HPFGUIDX 79889

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "trishel2003" <tkj_etal at b...> wrote:
> "Master, I am sorry, I knew not, I was fighting the Animagus Black!" 
> sobbed Bellatrix.--P. 812
> 
> What a weird thing to call Sirius. When Bella could have called him 
> Sirius, or Sirius Black, or Black, or Mr. Black, or her cousin, or 
> her cousin Sirius, or her cousin Black, or basically anything, she 
> brings up the fact that he is an Animagus.
> 
> So, what's the deal? My personal theory is that the pureblood 
> fanatics think of Animagi as half-breeds, and therefore lesser 
> beings. 

I think you can add that by calling him "the Animagus Black," she's
demonstrating the degree to which she's separated herself emotionally
from him.  She's his cousin--his own blood--but she has nothing but
contempt for him because he's a "blood traitor."

It's much easier to off someone when you first dehumanize him.

--Dicentra, who will have her revenge on Bella if it's the last thing
she ever does