Bella's Backstory

[potioncat]

No: HPFGUIDX 117709


, "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?  

Kneasy wrote: 
> It's a mystery.
> 
snip.
> 
> 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.

Potioncat:
Somehow I knew that Kneasy would be the first to answer this post!

I may be mistaken, and if I am you'd better not mention it, but 
isn't that portrait Sirius' mother?  Mrs. Black and Bellatrix's 
mother could be very very different.  In fact, wouldn't it be the 
two Black fathers who are related (Sirius' father and Bellatrix's 
father?)

Potioncat (who is actually becoming more like her mother-in-law)