The Animagus Black (was: Faking Sirius' Death?)

[Jen Reese]

No: HPFGUIDX 91509

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Inge" <Elvishooked at h...> 
wrote:

> One thing that has kept me wondering is Bellatrix' words to 
Voldemort 
> later when she tries to explain why she - and the rest of the DE's 
> once again let Harry get away: "Master, I am sorry, I knew not. I 
was 
> fighting the Animagus Black!" sobbed Bellatrix... "Master, you 
should 
> know-" - and here she is - dang - interrupted by Voldemorts: "Be 
> quiet, Bella!"
> 
> Now - what *I* want to know is
> 
> 1) What is it that Bellatrix "knew not" ?


Jen: She 'knew not' that the prophecy orb was already broken. LV 
finds this out in the sentence prior.

Inge:
> 2) Why does she refer to Sirius as "The Animagus Black" instead of 
> simply Sirius Black? Is it because 'the other' (Regulus) is still 
> around somewhere and she doesn't want the names mixed up?

Jen: I thought this was odd wording, too. There was an interesting 
thread back in Aug. that starts here:

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPforGrownups/message/79887

Some people thought it was a way for Bella to distance herself from 
her cousin. I thought the ambiguous wording was a way to distinguish 
Sirius from the other Blacks still alive, like Andromeda and 
possibly Regulus, like you said.

Inge:
> 
> 3) What is it that she thinks her Master should know but doesn't 
get 
> the chance to say before he interrupts her?

Jen:
A few sentences later she says: "But Master--he is here--he is below-
-" (US chap. 36, p. 812)

Unless the interrupted sentence was about something totally 
different, Bella is trying to tell him DD is below. Maybe, this is a 
stretch, but the 'he' she's referring to is actually Sirius and she 
wants to tell him Sirius fell through the Veil. I wonder if 
Voldemort knows about the Veil? Seems like something he would want 
to destroy, given that death phobia he has :).