LV's attitude toward women/Sirius' intended (Was:Slytherins/DE and Girls)

[lizvega2]

No: HPFGUIDX 91966

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "ghinghapuss" 
<rredordead at a...> wrote:
> > Meri wrote:
> >  My original point was that as Bellatrix is the only female 
> > DE that we know of at the moment, there must be something about 
> her (ie: a romantic, or more likely physical, relationship between 
> her and LV) that confirms for him her loyalty to the cause and to 
> him. 

LizVega callously interrupting:)

We do have a little information regarding LV and women in general. 
His mother was a witch, and most likely the carrier of SS' blood 
that LV is so proud of. In COS when LV is telling Harry about his 
history, his anamosity rests solely with his father. He didn't say 
one negative word about his mother abandoning him in death. I wonder 
how it affected him though. 

When LV is trying to murder Harry when he was a baby, he didn't just 
kill Lilly, for whatever reasons, he told her to move. Perhaps he 
would've killed her after he killed Harry, but we, the reader, are 
told that he tells her to move.   

In GOF, the graveyard scene, LV talks of 'the Lestrange's', and is 
almost kind in his description of their devotion, not for Bella 
specifically, but as a 'couple'. 

In OOP, LV calls her, 'Bella'- a nickname?, Everyone else is 
referred to by their last names. Also, LV takes her with him when he 
leaves, granted she's right there trapped under a statue and 
everyone else is trapped in the death chamber, but I think it's 
noteworthy that he takes her with him, haven't we been told that LV 
is just as cruel to his followers as he is toward his enemies?

What to make of LV's attitude toward women? I think it may be the 
only soft spot he's got. Not a whole lot of proof for this, but Jo 
didn't just create some two-dimensional black-clad-bad-guy. Even 
Hitler had a girlfriend.   

<snip> (This brings up a whole new thing: who would Sirius 
> Black's intended have been? As a member of a great pure-blood 
house 
> he was probably set up at a young age to be married, but to whom? 
A 
> LeStrange? A Malfoy? A Weasley? Ahh, too OT!!!!)
> 
> Perhaps he was intended for Florence, the girl Bertha Jorkins told 
DD about in the pensieve. She never says WHO she caught kissing 
Florence, and Sirius refers to Bertha later as nosy. Also, Bertha 
was hexed by the mystery man, Sirius didn't have trouble hexing 
people he didn't like back then!