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

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No: HPFGUIDX 126354


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:  
<SNIP>

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.  <SNIP> 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.

Alla:

On the level of sympathy or empathy with the character, I really 
have no interest in Bella, but on the intelectual level of analysing 
the text, I do wonder what made her as crazy as she is.

In light of all that I am again wondering when Voldemort started 
recruiting  and whether Bella took the Dark mark while she was still 
in school or just out of school. As to her upbringing, I tend to 
think that it is a possibility that she had a cruel streak since she 
was a child, but that is just speculation in light of general look 
at Black family.

Nevertheless, Andromeda managed to get away, Sirius got away so it 
is not a given that Black family produced only crazy pureblood 
fanatics.

I don't know. Could it be that Bella's husband influenced her 
thinking that much?

And of course I am quite positive that even if she was crazy before 
Azkaban, she got crasier there.

JMO,

Alla