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

[Tonks]

No: HPFGUIDX 154215

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "justcarol67" 
<justcarol67 at ...> wrote:
>
> Tonks wrote:
> <snip>
> > 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).
> 
Tonks:
Opps. Thanks for correcting that. I had forgotten and posted that 
quickly just before running out the door. 

Carol:
> 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.
> 

Tonks:
It is interesting isn't it. Now that you mention it, of all the 
others that we have seen, other that Malfoy and Snape, she does seem 
the most competent. I think of her as a female (but unrepentant) 
Snape. Of any females in the series she seems to be his equal. 
McGonagall and Molly are both competent, but they do not know the 
dark arts like Bella and Snape.  Often those who are most alike are 
those who hate each other the most.  This might be the case between 
Bella and Snape.

Tonks_op