Bella's Backstory

[kiricat2001]

No: HPFGUIDX 117755


--- 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?  


Marianne:

I would imagine that rage/anger are only one means to be a successful 
Cruciator (is that an acceptable word?).  I see Bella as maniacally 
strong in her worship of Voldemort and all of the pureblooded 
superiority nonsense he spouts. I also suspect that this was the 
lifeline she held onto in Azkaban.  She would tend to see non-
purebloods as lesser beings and fully derserving of any treatment she 
chose to gave them.  She wouldn't have to be angry to kill 
a "Mudblood."  In her world view, they are a stain on society and 
should be exterminated. Just whip out that wand and squash that bug.

That probably makes her a good torturer, too. She has no empathy for 
people she deems unworthy.  It's easy for her to torture the 
Longbottoms and then, years later, taunt Neville about it. People who 
stand in Voldemort's way are either impure thus deserving of death, 
or misguided purebloods, who are traitors to the cause, and thus, 
also deserving of death.

With a worldview like that, who needs anger?

Marianne, wondering how she missed that forecast about snow