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

[Kemper]

No: HPFGUIDX 154250

> 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:
> ... snip...
>
> 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
>
> 
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Kemper now:
LV does act out of self interest, the question is: what is the
interest with Bella?
I'm ruling out any shipping.
And though Carol offers good reasons (her obsessive loyalty and LV's
underwhelming lackeys except for the enigmatic Snape), I think the
real reason is more self preserving.

While I'm not a fan of the theory, others seem to be, so here's what
I'm offering:  he grabbed Bella so that others, namely DD, wouldn't
question her.  I don't buy the theory that claims Bella hid the
Locket!Horcrux in the cave, but I like the idea that he lied to her,
telling her a secret that none of the other DE's knew of their Master.
 And that secret?  That he made a (as in one) horcrux.  The beauty of
the lie is that it's veiled in a truth.  This is why at her trial,
Bella called out, "The Dark Lord will rise again, Crouch!  Throw us
into Azkaban; we will wait!  He will rise again and will come for us,
he will reward us beyond any of his other supporters!  We alone were
faithful!  We alone tried to find him!"

-Kemper