[HPforGrownups] What if Bellatrix found the Elder Wand?

[Lee Kaiwen]

No: HPFGUIDX 182751

SSSusan:
> I think this is a fascinating question.

I agree.

> If she truly was as powerful, THEN would her desire 
 > for power, for more power, to be the one with
 > supreme power, override her lusting and
> longing for Voldy? Would she still share or give 
 > the wand away? Or would she keep it and try to
 > control him?

I see two different definitions of "power" colluding (or colliding) 
here. In the first sense, of strength, I think Bella's lust for power is 
quite apparent. In the second, of control and domination over others, I 
don't see Bella's lust as matching Riddle's. Bella relished evil for 
evil's sake, and she would likely have enjoyed Total Domination 
initially, mostly only insofar as it enabled her lust for evil toward 
others. But I think she ultimately would have become at first bored with 
all the administrative overhead of being Supreme Mugwump, and ultimately 
annoyed at how the business of running the world kept intefering with 
her desires to just go run amock.

Supreme Mugwumpesse Bella: So, I think I'll go AK those Mudbloods we 
rounded up last week.
First Lieutenant Voldy: Sorry, you're scheduled to tour the MoM this 
morning.
SM: Oh, that's right. This afternoon then.
Voldy: No can do -- the monthly Azkhaban Board meeting starts at two.
SM: Tomorrow?
Voldy: DE inspections in the morning, and you're spending the afternoon 
reviewing proposals for the new Dark Mark design.
SM: (exasperated) So what's the *point* of being SM if I never get to 
have any fun?

Riddle, on the other hand, was a psychotic whose egomania *demanded* 
Total Domination; anything less was utterly intolerable to him. Bella's 
evil was, in a sense, more pure than Riddle's -- evil for evil's sake. 
Riddle's motivation, on the other hand, seems to have been more about 
power and domination than it was about the pure joy of evil.

That's not to say Bella wouldn't have been tempted by the idea of 
Supreme Mugwumpness, and might even have challenged Voldy if she'd had 
the means. But I think her reign would have been much more chaotic than 
Riddle's and quickly imploded.

--C