What would Bella think or do?

[Geoff Bannister]

No: HPFGUIDX 126332


--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Miikka R." <ryokas at h...> wrote:

Kizor:
> It will have no effect. Bellatrix is a fanatic; likely the most 
loyal
> of all of Voldemort's supporters. The facts are unimportant in
> comparison to The Truth.
> 
> In her trial, she was unflinchingly defiant and even proud of her
> actions, and it's telling that in a group where the bulk of the
> minions apparently don't much care of LV and keep to their roles to
> further their own agendas (with a cheerful dose of "I'll kill you if
> you try to leave") she was the one known person to defend her 
position
> when she had nothing to gain by doing so.

Geoff:
Looking at this post and Steve's last one was interesting because in 
my thinking, I had also been drawing parallels with the Nazis and 
other dictatorships.

The subtle difference is that Hitler's non-Aryan background was 
obvious from his physical appearance; he was not blond, blue-eyed or 
rippling with muscles. It is not obvious in the Wizarding World 
whether someone is pure-blood, half-blood or bloodless :-) by their 
appearance.

Again, it has been pointed out that these leaders - Hitler, 
Voldemort - carefully ignored the fact that they did not match their 
own criteria to be one of the chosen people.

Apart from that, there are similarities in the behaviour of 
followers. Many of Hitler's associates were fanatical in their 
support even in the last days when the regime was falling apart 
around their ears - a good example of this was Joseph Goebbels who 
was still pumping out propaganda when the Russians were fighting 
their way into Berlin.

Folk like this hear what they want to hear and anything else is a lie 
put out by the "enemy" - political, war or personal opponents. So I 
still believe that Bellatrix didn't know about Voldemort's half-blood 
background but, having heard it from Harry would, as I think Steve 
suggested, dismiss it as the bumblings of a child or, from an adult, 
from someone who didn't have the special knowledge to understand what 
the "leader" stood for. Mark you, it is true of all the notable 
dictators that there are always folk in the wings trying to get into 
the right position for the moment when something happens to the 
leader; that element in Bellatrix plus her apparent devotion to 
Voldemort plus her mental state after so much time in Azkaban could 
make her a more dangerous opponent to deal with in the ultimate 
showdown.