Slytherins/DE and Girls

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No: HPFGUIDX 91886

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

(big snippage)

>I see 
> Bellatrix Lestrange as more of an anomally than the norm. I 
> personally think that she has some relationship to LV that we 
don't 
> know yet, and that there is some overriding factor that convinces 
LV 
> of her loyalty, despite the fact that she is a woman. Anyway, back 
> to lurkdom I go. 
> Meri (who will be v. disappointed in JKR if LV and Bellatrix 
aren't  
> caught somewhere snogging in DE HQ sometime in the next two 
> books, cause even a dark lord needs a little love)

I was pondering just how someone who can cast a Crucio spell so 
easily defines "love". I believe her marriage to LeStrange was 
arranged OR due to a mutual interest in torture. S&M anyone? They 
probably get off on others' pain and the Longbottoms torture, 
well...