[the_old_crowd] Re: Bellatrix's age, Tree, Vampires (was: A Few More Twigs)

[silmariel]

Eileen:
> He said it was at Hogwarts, though....
>
> You know, I've given up. I REFUSE to think about JKR'S ages EVER AGAIN!
> They make no bloody sense and I'm only torturing myself trying to find some
> rhyme or reason.
>

You're welcome. After a few headaches I grouped characters in bunchs. Those of 
Harry's age, those + - 10 years older(Bill, Barty, Stan,Tonks), his parents 
generation, those slightly older as Malfoy, after that McGonagall and Co, and 
then the Ancients. That's all folks.

I don't know exactly what to do with the new branches of the family tree. Way 
back in GoF I tried to match Nevile and Harry because a not-fan told me those 
two boys were 'obviously' connected by Neville's parents. Of course, I 
wondered about them being family in some grade, but it seemed an 
out-of-this-books idea. After that, the prophecy neatly tied them.

Now JKR seems to point that Draco included, they're all in the same family 
tree. Indeed, she's managing the 'we're family!' standard in a sneaky way, 
but as it fits with Imposter!Cissy, I love it. 

Setting that theory aside, I'd like to know where the listies think it points. 
We've got a buch on entangled families, screen-time wise, I have the feeling 
that the family tree has been enough represented in scene and she's making a 
kind of a small theathre play with that family, a subset of the war that 
includes every possible side.

As an aside, I left pending an interesting not-headache question (*cough* GH 
is a headache question). Would Voldemort be interested in being a vampire?

No, because a vampire isn't indestructible enough, they just don't age, but 
that's a 'in the line of fire' kind of inmortality that wouldn't suffice in 
his eyes, imo. He's too scared of death. I think he could be interested in it 
as a reward for old enough DEs, as he wouldn't feel menaced by them being 
vampires, it's not the same as sharing Horthingies.

That his body can be destroyed? Yes, but I think that's an advantage, instead 
of a flaw. I have neutralized a few inmortal&indestructible beings, once they 
are in a tight cage, or buried deep enough, they are there for a few millenia 
(usually they just go mad), a trick that doesn't work if they can die and 
reform their bodies later.

Silmariel