Bella's Backstory

[carolynwhite2]

No: HPFGUIDX 117711


--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "potioncat" <willsonkmom at m...> 
wrote:
> 
> , "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)

Carolyn:
I have just read an extremely entertaining old post which ends up 
commenting 'if you are afraid of Dementors, you haven't met their 
mothers'. 

Alas, women...always men's worst nightmares.