Inside Bella was Re: What would Bella think or do?

[kiricat2001]

No: HPFGUIDX 126352


 
Tonks:
> <snip>
> > She seems to be a strong, heartless woman. 
> >snip snip<
> > Anyway how can a person be strong, unyielding, cruel and 
> loving it  one minute, and the next be a sniveling, whimpering 
> being groveling  at the feet of LV?  I just don't get it. <


> Pippin:
> She's not a woman at all, really. She's an overgrown child. JKR 
> symbolizes this by having her use that baby voice. Other people 
> are her toys, to be broken if it pleases her. LV is her substitute 
> parent, whom she's desperate to please.
> 

Marianne: 

I have the same puzzlement Tonks does, not only with regard to 
Bellatrix, but to all the rest of the DEs.  Obviously they agree with 
Voldemort, or are scared to death of him, or feel that by following 
him they will get what they want - power, position, a chance to lord 
over people who may be smarter or more skilled than they are, but who 
aren't pureblood, or whatever.  Still, all this bowing and scraping 
to the Lord and Master, no matter how powerful Vmort is, is not 
something I get, either.

I'm on the fence about Pippin's analysis. If Bellatrix is really 
caught in this sort of immaturity, even aside from her cruelty, what 
sort of history did she have to cause that?  Was she always a 
spoiled, little rich bitch, with a mile-wide streak of cruelty, who 
got whatever she wanted all her life, demanding expensive toys and 
the latest fashion, then somehow wrecking them and demanding more?  
Did Voldemort realize she was a powerful witch, and that he could 
manipulate her power and cruelty to his own ends?  

I wonder too how much of a role Azkaban has played in making her what 
we see in OoP.  Are we seeing her as she always was, meaning that the 
Dementors had no effect on her, or are we seeing someone who has 
survived that hell-hole, but who is not unscathed by it?  I wouldn't 
think anyone can emerge from Azkaban whole, and, as JKR describes 
Sirius as being somewhat unbalanced by his imprisonment, I can't 
imagine that Bellatrix has not also suffered some mental damage.

Marianne