Bellatrix as Richard III

[justcarol67]

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Mandy wrote: 

<snip> Bellatrix betraying 
> Harry Potter would be a triumph equal only to Richard III's seduction 
> of Lady Anne in Shakespeare!  A challenge worthy of our Ms. 
> Lestrange.  


Carol:
This is totally off-topic but I had to respond: Lady Anne Neville was
Richard III's first cousin once removed and they grew up in the same
household. There is evidence that they loved each other deeply and he
was devastated by her death. Shakespeare's "history" plays are based
on the kinds of biased sources that Eustace-Scrubb recently described,
further distorted by a dramatic license that has Richard fighting in a
battle that occurred when he was eight years old.

My apologies to the List Elves (and to Mandy, who has every right to
like Shakespeare's Richard as a literary character even though he
bears no resemblance to the real Richard). Bellatrix, though she has
no historical antecedents, can be enjoyed for similar reasons.

Carol, hoping that the List Elves will be kind and not delete this post