Why did LV save Bellatrix from DD? (Was: Cold Fish Dumbledore)

[justcarol67]

No: HPFGUIDX 154185

Tonks wrote:
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> As to why LV came to fight DD. DD was fighting Bella and she needed 
> help. Now we can ask why he didn't just leave her to die or be 
> arrested???  

Carol responds:
I thought that *Harry* was fighting Bella and LV heard him tell Bella
that the Prophecy orb had been destroyed and knew it was true, so he
showed up to kill Harry. When DD joined the fight (fortunately, almost
immediately), he used the broken fountain to pin Bella down and
prevent her from joining in (as well as to shield Harry).

It's interesting that LV took her with him when he left. Maybe she was
the only loyal follower that he had left, or at least the only one
involved in the MoM fiasco who escaped arrest? If he doesn't have her,
he's stuck with the likes of Wormtail, Goyle (who seems to have been
absent for some reason), Amycus and Alecto, the "brutal-faced" DE
(Yaxley), and Fenrir Greyback. And, oh, yes, that enigma Snape, whom
he was ready to murder at the end of GoF for leaving him forever.

If I were LV, I'd have taken her with me, too. Unstable she may be,
and she failed to save the Prophecy, but at least there's no question
where her loyalties lie.

Carol, who agrees with Tonks that DD is not a cold fish, much less a
psychopath or sociopath, but thinks that LV acted out of self-interest
here as usual