Bella's Backstory

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No: HPFGUIDX 117708


--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "ericoppen" <technomad at i...> wrote:
> 
> You know, I'd dearly love to hear Bellatrix Lestrange's story---how 
> it was that she became what she now is.  If it's true that you "have 
> to mean" the Cruciatus Curse, then what was it that teed her off that 
> badly?  
> 
> I mean---I have serious anger issues myself (as I've said before and 
> will say again, in Harry's boots I could have Cruciatus'd Bella to a 
> crackly crunch, no problem) even I would have to work myself up to 
> it.  She seems to be able to Cruciatus people she's never met before 
> that did nothing to her or to anybody she cares about *cough Neville 
> cough cough*---so where does she get that apparent bottomless well of 
> rage?
> 
> It can't be from being tossed into Azkaban, since she was apparently 
> the DEs' Cruciatus specialist before Godric's Hollow.  So---what do 
> you think got her so furious at the world?  *grin* Was Rabastan 
> _that_ lousy a husband?

It's a mystery.
You and I -  as mere males - are ill equipped to fathom the workings
of the female mind. Do you  really understand why they explode just 
because you have the lawn-mower spread all over the kitchen in bits?
'Tis passing strange.

There is a theory, the veracity of which I do not care to assert, that
postulates that all  daughters end up as copies of their mothers.
Given who Bella's mother was and what she was like (as evidenced 
by the portrait in GP) and this theory looks like a runner.

The really tricky question so  far as I'm concerned is, given that
Rastaban must have met the family, including her mother, why the
hell did he marry her? Imperio! perhaps? There he is, a modest little
DE and Pow! - he's overcome by hormones. Suddenly he no longer
notices her collected works of De Sade autographed and bound in 
Muggle hide, the "Sally Rules OK!" doodles on her school books, the 
red hour-glass appliqued on the back of her party robe or her habit 
of announcing "Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition!" whenever
she burst into a room.

It's happened to the best of us. We see no further that the soft
brown eyes and ....er, one or two other things. But by then it's too late
my friend. All in all, Azkaban was probably a welcome relief to him.

Kneasy