Rabastan Lestrange (Was:Re: LV's Choice: Potters or Longbottoms or both)

[justcarol67]

No: HPFGUIDX 99346

karenoc1 wrote:
<snip> Sirius was sent to Azkaban without a trial.  
> But later, the Ministry made great efforts to round up the rest of 
> the DE's and the trials began.  First Karkaroff, then Ludo Bagman, 
> and then later still, the Lestranges, Barty Crouch, Jr. (and another 
> Death Eater, I just don't remember which one). <snip>

Carol:
Thanks for doing such a fine job on the chronology of the events
relating to the Longbottom tragedy. Probably the reason you can't
remember the other DE is that he's also sometimes included in the term
"the Lestranges." He's Rodolphus Lestrange's brother, Rabastan. His
name is not given in the trial scene, but Sirius reveals it to Harry
in "The Noble and Most Ancient House of Black" chapter of OoP. He's
also present in the battle of the DoM and is now presumably back in
Azkaban with his brother and sister-in-law.

I think that he was with the other two Lestranges near the end of the
DoM (something happened to his original partner--maybe he was the
Baby-headed Death Eater). I always see him as a follower, sort of a
Peter Pettigrew type, who idolizes Bellatrix and possibly Rodolphus,
or else a Crabbe type who latches onto them because he's too dumb to
think for himself. He seems to me to fit into the pattern of paired,
usually contrasting, brothers that we see so often in the HP books,
but unfortunately we don't know much about him. But JKR has to have a
reason for creating him and for having four rather than three people
involved in the Crucioing of the Longbottoms.

Anyone else have any theories or speculations about Rabastan?
ESG!Rabastan, anybody?

Carol, who is intrigued by the characters on the fringes of the story
and hopes they're not just filler