Lilly.

[delwynmarch]

No: HPFGUIDX 121388


Eggplant wrote:
"She did not die, she changed her name and became a Death Eater. Her
new name is Bellatrix Lestrange. "

Del replies:
Actually I would argue it's the other way around : Lily Evans was in
fact Bellatrix Lestrange in disguise. Sirius said in OoP that he
hadn't seen his cousin since he was about 15, which is also the time
Lily Evans really came into the life of the Marauders.

So here's my theory : LV knew somehow that James Potter was going to
be a problem of cosmic dimensions (another Prophecy maybe?) so he
wanted to keep a close eye on him. He chose his devout Bella to help
him in a huge undercover operation. Bella or any of the junior DEs had
noticed while still at Hogwarts that James Potter was infatuated with
Lily Evans, so LV decided to use that to his advantage. Right after
Bella graduated, he had Lily kidnapped, and Bella turned into Lily
(Polyjuice Potion, most probably) and sent back to Hogwarts. That
would have been at the beginning of James and Lily's 5th year. This of
course explains why Bella!Lily was so upset at James in the Pensieve
scene, since Snape had been the pet of her gang of Slytherins. Over
time, Bella got more into her role, even to the extent of successfully
pretending to love James and eventually getting him to marry her.
Needless to say, LV was pleased! Even more so when the Prophecy was
made, as he had an easy access to Harry. But then James took the whole
family into hiding, which completely thwarted Bella's plans. She had
to find another way of letting LV know how to get to Harry. So she
looked around her, and what did she find? Impressionable Peter
Pettigrew. The perfect target! So she seduced him (whether as Bella or
as Lily, I don't know yet), and got him to work for LV. When James and
Sirius started talking about getting the Potter family protected by a
Fidelius Charm, Bella!Lily was in fact the one to suggest that they
used Peter while keeping the pretense that Sirius was still SK. In
particular, she insisted that they didn't tell anyone, even DD, which
explains why they didn't trust even DD. This way, nobody would ever
know what had happened when LV finally got a hold of Harry and his
parents. The plan was to kill Harry and James, and bring Lily Evans
(who had been kept away somewhere safe all those years) to the place
and kill her too, so that nobody would ever suspect Bella!Lily. But
something went wrong. I'm not sure what it is, but it might have to do
with the real Lily. Maybe she was under an Imperius spell and broke
out of it long enough to try and protect Harry (even though he wasn't
her son). Whatever it was, something went wrong, Harry didn't die, LV
was vaporised, James and the real Lily died. But Bella managed to
escape (I can't quite figure out yet why she didn't take Harry with
her, but that's a detail), and she tried to figure out what to do.
That's why she led the attack on the Longbottoms: to figure out what
had happened and what could be done to repair things now.

As for Bellatrix Black's apparent life all those years, it could have
been her sister, Narcissa, impersonating her at strategic times and
events, like her fake marriage to Rodolphus Lestrange, so that nobody
could ever have any suspicion.

Note : any other female DE could take the place of Bellatrix in this
story, but it wouldn't be half as fun :-D

What think ye, Eggplant? You asked for it ;-)

Del