Slytherins/DE and Girls

[ghinghapuss]

No: HPFGUIDX 91917

> Meri 
> >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. 
<snip> 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)

> "artcase" wrote:
> 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...


Mandy here:
Have to disagree with Artcase about the Lestrange's marrage. I think 
it is too easy for us to believe that an evil person is incapable of 
love, or at least, can not share our definition of love. I believe 
that evil people not only love as much, and as deeply as we do, but 
often love deeper than we do. So much so, that it is that desperate 
love, and the desire for love that leads them into performing the 
heinous acts of evil that we condemn.  

I think Bellatrix has a huge capacity to love in a very smothering, 
passionate, demanding, and possessive way.  The person Bella loves 
the most is, of course, LV. She loves him deeply and passionately, 
non-sexually or sexually (although I can't think about that too much 
as it makes my skin crawl), but it is that love for him  which 
enables Bella to so what she does for the Dark Lord without ever 
questioning or faltering.  And, although we have absolutely no canon 
to support this, I think she loves her husband in an equally deep 
and passionate way.  After all they share so many of the same 
interests.  Why wouldn't they not love and have been attracted to 
one another when they met?

Love and hate are the same ends of an opposite spectrum.  Humans who 
can feel deep hatred are also capable of deep love.  And visa versa

Mandy,