And who can blame him? This is the same family brach that wound up becoming related to the Crouchs, Prewetts, and Longbottoms more on those in a moment. There are some good connections to be found, in this twisted family line that Sirius was forced to bear. For example, did you know that Sirius is actually related to Neville Longbottom? It may be hard to believe, but that is exactly the case. Though we imagine the Blacks were not pleased with Neville's parents and their joining of the Order of the Phoenix.
Neville's great-grandmother was Calidora Black. Which means that Neville has some of their blood running in his veins. His ties back to Sirius are slightly thinner, but it's still not something that can be denied.
And no, we don't mean related by marriage. Each one of them has ties back to the Black family. Remember that nearly every pureblooded family left has connections to the Blacks, and it makes a bit more sense.
Arthur Weasley's mother was Cedrella Black, and thus his tie to the Black family is a bit stronger than his wife's. Meanwhile, Molly had an aunt by the name of Lucretia Black. These connections eventually are what make Harry related to Sirius as well, so that's fun food for thought. And finally, would you believe that Nymphadora Tonks is related to Sirius Black? It's true! In fact, this whole complicated family line is the reason why Tonks was hunted so fiercely by Bellatrix due to Tonks marrying Lupin.
Tonk's mom is Andromeda Black, and she's the sister to Narcissa and Bellatrix, as hard as that might be to believe. And that means, by blood, that Tonks and Sirius are also related. Just with a bit more distance. Fun fact! That also means that in the end, Lupin and Sirius were related to one another by marriage though sadly Sirius never lived to see that day. She's known for being a bit on the quirky side, but that doesn't diminish her passion in the least. As you may have guessed by her nickname, she is also a cat lover, though truthfully she loves most animals she has the opportunity to meet.
Albus Dumbledore characterizes her as " She is so single-minded in her aims that she counts family, such as her cousin Sirius Black, her niece, Nymphadora Tonks, and even her sister, Andromeda, among her enemies, and attempts to kill Tonks and Sirius, succeeding in Sirius' case and possibly in Tonks' as well, the book does not say who was actually responsible for Tonks' death.
While even Voldemort decides against killing a Muggle boy as "unnecessary, quite unnecessary" when it is the occasion happens before the killing of the Potters and is reported in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows , we see Bellatrix Lestrange throw the Killing Curse at a merely suspicious bush, without caring whether the noise comes from a fox as was actually the case , a Muggle or wizard, or the Auror she might have suspected to be there in Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince.
In many ways it is a fearsome strength, as she will do whatever is necessary to gain Voldemort's favour and help him conquer the Wizarding realm. She is obsessively devoted to and in love with Voldemort, putting him above anything else, including her family; this obsession consumes everything in her life.
Bellatrix's evil nature borders on total insanity, causing her to act rashly and fervently. In the Department of Mysteries, it is noted that the other Death Eaters present seem disturbed by Bellatrix' intensity, and, at one point, Lucius Malfoy must restrain her.
Though she is married to Rodolphus Lestrange, Bellatrix has long harbored a passionate desire for Lord Voldemort.
It is unclear whether she is truly in love with him or merely besotted by his power, but regardless, her obsessive lust leads her to being among his most devoted and fanatical Death Eaters.
However, her feelings are hardly reciprocated, as Voldemort believes love is a weakness, nor is he even capable of experiencing that emotion. Though Voldemort utterly trusts and relies on her, he would likely sacrifice her, as he did Snape, if it served his evil purpose. The three women's father is Cygnus Black, who is Sirius Black's uncle. The extensive inbreeding within the "pure-blood" wizard lines can be measured by examining the Black family tree , which shows that Bellatrix is related distantly to many major players in the story, including: the Weasleys, both directly and via the Prewetts; the Tonks; the Longbottoms; the Macmillans; the Crouches; and even Harry himself.
Note that though related to the Tonks clan by Andromeda's marriage to Ted Tonks , Bellatrix has disavowed the relationship and has expunged Andromeda from the family tree, and even physically attacked Andromeda's daughter, her own niece, Nymphadora Tonks.
Bellatrix has few personal relationships, though she appears to be close to her other sister, Narcissa Malfoy, and dotes on her only nephew, Draco, Narcissa's son, though she and her brother-in-law, Lucius Malfoy, also a Death Eater, seem barely cordial with one another. It is unknown what Bellatrix's and her husband's marriage is like, as they are rarely seen interacting with one another, nor does she mention him.
Their union is childless. Bellatrix strongly distrusts Severus Snape. Given that she is sufficiently skilled as an Occlumens to be teaching the technique to Draco, we can imagine that this suspicion is partially due to Snape's own ability in that field.
Bellatrix no doubt has attempted to use Legilimency on Snape and had been blocked, though she may have been unaware. Her ongoing distrust regarding Snape may largely be due to her inability to read his motives, along with the fact that Snape seems to have replaced Bellatrix in Voldemort's councils. It is possible that the two got along at least slightly better when they were younger, and that the distrust stems from relatively recent events.
We note that Sirius mentions they were friends or at least acquaintances during their Hogwarts years. As much as Bellatrix loves Lord Voldemort, she equally hates Harry Potter, considering him the greatest threat to Voldemort and his plans. She will do anything to assist the Dark Lord's desire to defeat Harry.
Even by most Wizarding world standards, Bellatrix is considered more than slightly insane. In Dumbledore's Pensieve, we see her screaming defiance at the Wizengamot. After finding her portrait that Kreacher had hidden away at Grimmauld Place , Harry remarks on her insane appearance. Of all the Death Eaters in the battle in the Ministry of Magic , she alone is restrained from attacking Harry before he has relinquished the Prophecy. She also wants to torture Neville , just as she did to his parents many years before, to force Harry into yielding the Prophecy.
Interestingly, while at Snape's home in Spinner's End, she is the voice of moderation, urging Narcissa to avoid getting into trouble by seeking Snape's help against Voldemort's wishes.
Like Voldemort, Bellatrix does not understand love. She has an obsession with Voldemort, which she may mistake for love, but it is not reciprocated: he regards his followers as servants and tools for his own ends. When meeting with Narcissa Malfoy and Snape to discuss Draco's mission, she does not understand why Narcissa is so worried about Draco.
She says that if she had children of her own, she would gladly sacrifice them to do Voldemort's work. Rowling wrote elsewhere that her defeat at the hands of Molly Weasley is a symbolic victory of Molly's motherly love over Bellatrix's obsessive love. After graduating from Hogwarts, Bellatrix became a Death Eater. She was fanatically loyal to Lord Voldemort and was among the most dangerous and sadistic of his followers.
All the Black sisters married pure-blood wizards, except for Andromeda who married Muggle-born Ted Tonks and was disowned by the family. After Voldemort's fall from power, Bellatrix, her husband Rodolphus Lestrange , her brother-in-law Rabastan Lestrange , and Barty Crouch Jnr captured and tortured the Aurors Frank and Alice Longbottom , seeking information about Voldemort's whereabouts which eventually drove the two Aurors insane. The four Death Eaters were caught and sentenced to life imprisonment in Azkaban.
Voldemort eventually returned to full strength in and Bellatrix, Rodolphus, and Rabastan escaped from Azkaban in the mass break-out , along with seven other Death Eaters. Bellatrix participated in several battles of the Second Wizarding War , making it a particular goal to murder any relatives who were members of the Order of the Phoenix.
She successfully murdered two, her cousin Sirius Black and niece Nymphadora Tonks. She also murdered the Malfoy family 's former house-elf, Dobby , who had become a firm ally of Harry Potter. During the final battle , Bellatrix was the last Death Eater standing.
She was eventually killed in a duel by Molly Weasley after her attempted murder of Ginny Weasley. Before her death, Bellatrix secretly gave birth to an illegitimate daughter named Delphini , whom she conceived with her beloved master, Lord Voldemort. Delphini was conceived sometime after the Battle of the Department of Mysteries in and before Bellatrix's death at the Battle of Hogwarts in Bellatrix was born in to Cygnus Black III and Druella Rosier , who gave her a rich lifestyle and raised her to be proud of her pure-blood heritage.
She was the elder sister of Andromeda and Narcissa Black. A young Bellatrix middle with her younger sisters, Narcissa and Andromeda. Along with the rest of her family who held pureblood supremacy beliefs, Bellatrix cut off contact with Andromeda when she married Muggle-born wizard Ted Tonks , causing her to be disowned from the House of Black.
Neither she or Narcissa had " set eyes on Andromeda since she married the Mudblood Tonks ". Bellatrix eventually married Rodolphus Lestrange, a fellow wealthy pure-blood and Slytherin, marrying out of obligation of fulfilling her family's pro pure-blood mentality and tradition, Unlike her sisters, she never displayed any affection for her husband whatsoever, never even mentioning him in conversations nor bearing him any children.
At some point, she received training in the Dark Arts from Voldemort himself. However, he never returned her feelings as he was incapable of understanding love and disliked the idea of being emotionally attached to anyone.
The pair remained loyal to the Dark Lord throughout the war, even after he was "defeated" by the infant Harry Potter. Bellatrix is tried before the Council of Magical Law , along with her husband, her brother-in-law, and Barty Crouch Jnr. After the Dark Lord's fall on 31 October , , Bellatrix and a group of Voldemort's followers, including Rodolphus, her brother-in-law Rabastan , and Barty Crouch Jnr , managed to avoid capture or execution by Aurors.
Seeking to find and revive their master, the group kidnapped Aurors and Order of the Phoenix members Alice and Frank Longbottom , just new parents to Neville Longbottom. She and her partners used the Cruciatus Curse to torture the couple for information on Voldemort's whereabouts, until the two captives were driven into insanity when they refused to divulge anything.
This happened when Neville was only a baby. Frank and Alice were placed in the Janus Thickey Ward for irrevocable spell damage at St Mungo's Hospital for Magical Maladies and Injuries and, due to them undergoing extreme torture, were rendered unaware that they had a son together.
Bellatrix while imprisoned in Azkaban. This crime caused a wave of fury upon the wizard community of such ferocity that the Ministry of Magic were critically pressured to find the culprits. When the four were captured, they were tried before the Council of Magical Law and sentenced to life imprisonment in Azkaban. Unlike many other Death Eaters , Bellatrix didn't lie about her loyalty — she proudly claimed that she was loyal to Voldemort and that she would wait for his return.
Marked as Prisoner 93, Bellatrix was sentenced to life in Azkaban with no chance of release. For her actions, she later described herself as the Dark Lord's most loyal follower and even Lord Voldemort, whom she admired the most, gained a considerable amount of respect for her. Her fifteen years in a maximum security cell took a toll on her mentally, as it did with so many, as well as hollowing out her appearance until only the faintest traces of her familial beauty remained. Harry Potter later witnessed Bellatrix's trial in in a memory of Professor Dumbledore's.
When Voldemort returned to power in June , he said that Bellatrix, Rodolphus, and Rabastan Lestrange were faithful members of his inner circle and should be rewarded, as they didn't denounce him after they were captured and tried. In January , a mass breakout from Azkaban set ten long-imprisoned Death Eaters loose.
Bellatrix was one of the ten who escaped in the mass breakout and rejoined Voldemort, as well as the Dementors whom Albus Dumbledore correctly predicted would side with Voldemort. The Daily Prophet probably with encouragement from the Ministry of Magic reported that the escaped criminal Sirius Black must be responsible for the incident. These ten were considered to be some of the most dangerous and highly guarded convicts due to their crimes being brutal and legendary.
As a result, Bellatrix and her allies became wanted witches and wizards, living in hiding to avoid being captured by the Ministry. Neville Longbottom threatening Bellatrix in the Hall of Prophecy. She was enraged when Harry spoke Voldemort's given name and mentioned his true status as a half-blood. This enraged her so much that she actually tried to stun him before Lucius deflected her spell with a Shield Charm , not wanting to inadvertently harm the prophecy they were sent to retrieve.
She was very condescending when dealing with the six D. Bellatrix tried unsuccessfully to retrieve the prophecy from Harry Potter via a Summoning Charm , as her efforts were stopped by Harry's quick use of his own Shield Charm. However, she was willing to do whatever it took to get the prophecy from Harry, including gleefully and sadistically threatening to torture fourteen year old Ginny Weasley with the Cruciatus Curse while he was forced to watch. When the Order of the Phoenix members arrived, Bellatrix duelled and defeated her niece, Nymphadora Tonks.
She then began fighting her cousin Sirius Black who proceeded to taunt her during the course of their duel but she then struck him with a spell that sent him through the veil in the Death Chamber, killing him. After Sirius's death, Bellatrix defeated Kingsley Shacklebolt before deciding to flee.
Driven into a rage at the loss of his godfather, Harry pursued her all the way to the Atrium in an attempt to avenge him. After hideously mocking his relationship with Sirius, Harry attempted to use the Cruciatus Curse on her but only knocked her over causing her a few seconds of pain. Dropping her jeering manner, Bellatrix disdainfully lectured him on his failure to execute the curse effectively inadvertently teaching him how to do it properly in the future before resolving to torture him herself with it in order to demonstrate the full potency of the curse.
After unsuccessfully attempting to attack Harry, she discovered to her horror that the prophecy had been destroyed and proceeded to panic, repeatedly attempting to summon it in vain from Harry who laughed at her efforts and dismissed her pleadings for leniency from her master due to being unaware that the latter had just arrived at the Ministry.
Once Harry realised that Voldemort was indeed present, Bellatrix pleaded with her master not to be punished and tried to warn him that Dumbledore was nearby, but he ignored her and concentrated on attempting to kill Harry. As the Killing Curse blasted from the end of his wand towards Harry, Dumbledore arrived and enchanted the statues of the Fountain of Magical Brethren to protect Harry, act as reinforcements, and to ensure that Bellatrix couldn't intervene as she was then pinned to the ground by the newly sentient witch statue.
However, she was the sole Death Eater to escape being captured by effectively blocking the spell that he had attempted to cast upon her. Before duelling Voldemort, Dumbledore summoned Cornelius Fudge and several Aurors to the Ministry using the statues as messengers via the fireplaces along the Atrium wall. After a failed attempt at possessing Harry, Voldemort grabbed Bellatrix before Apparating away but not before being seen by Fudge and the Aurors.
With the rest of the Death Eaters immobilised and caught by the Ministry only moments later, Bellatrix was the only Death Eater not to be apprehended due to Voldemort intervening on her behalf, a testament to his acknowledgement of her loyalty to him. Once there, Bellatrix interrogated Snape and voiced her distrust of him. Snape's calm, reasonable, and logical answers to her aggressive questioning rendered her dissatisfied, but temporarily without retort.
However, Narcissa proceeded to beg Snape to look after her son Draco 's welfare while he attended Hogwarts and tried to fulfil Voldemort's orders to kill Dumbledore. Snape shocked Bellatrix by asking her to bind him and Narcissa with an Unbreakable Vow to assist Draco. Furthermore, Bellatrix assisted her nephew in his task by teaching him Occlumency , a tool he used against Snape in order to conceal the details of his mission.
By the next year, Bellatrix was living with Narcissa at Malfoy Manor. She was the only resident of the manor who was actually pleased that Voldemort was staying there, telling him that there was " no higher pleasure ". Despite her unwavering loyalty, her master humiliated her and the Malfoys by mentioning the marriage of Nymphadora Tonks , the daughter of their sister, to the werewolf Remus Lupin.
However, Bellatrix insisted that she and Narcissa didn't consider Nymphadora to be their niece, as they had disowned their sister for marrying a Muggle-born. Voldemort eventually stopped the teasing and advised Bellatrix to continue to "prune" her "family tree", which she eagerly agreed to do as soon as possible.
Despite her proclaimed loyalty towards her master, even Bellatrix hesitated when Voldemort said that he would need to borrow a wand from them in order to circumvent the problem of his own wand refusing to kill Harry, looking much like her colleagues " as though he had asked to borrow one of their arms ". When the Death Eaters subsequently attacked the Order of the Phoenix while they were moving Harry Potter from 4 Privet Drive , Bellatrix and her husband pursued a disguised Ronald Weasley and Tonks, whom Bellatrix tried very hard to kill.
However, Rodolphus was injured in the pursuit and Tonks escaped. Soon afterwards, a copy of Godric Gryffindor's Sword was secured in Bellatrix's family vault at Gringotts Wizarding Bank with Bellatrix and the Death Eaters unaware that it was merely a copy. The goblins who ran the bank noticed at once that it was not the genuine article, but neglected to mention it to Bellatrix owing to their disdain at the new wizard control of their bank.
Bellatrix sees the Sword of Gryffindor and retaliates against the Snatchers who possess it. In March , when Harry Potter , Ron Weasley , and Hermione Granger were captured by a group of Snatchers and brought to the manor, Bellatrix was at first eager to make sure that Voldemort was informed right away and she and Lucius briefly argued over who would summon him.
When she spotted Godric Gryffindor's Sword amongst the trio's captured possessions, however, she at once flew into a panic because the sword as far as she knew was hidden in her vault.
This led Harry to deduce that there could be something of great importance in her vault which ended up being one of Voldemort's Horcruxes: Helga Hufflepuff's Cup. Bellatrix, coming out of her panicked state, ordered the Snatcher holding the sword to hand it over to her and stunned the man when he refused. The other Snatchers turned on her at once, but even though it was four on one, they were no match for her and she quickly stunned three of them and forced Greyback to his knees, demanding to know where he had found the sword.
He then informed her that the sword had been found in the Trio's tent. She then took charge of the situation by resorting to torturing Hermione into revealing how the sword was in the Trio's possession and demanded that the rest of the prisoners be taken into the cellar temporarily, while ordering the Stunned Snatchers to be placed in the courtyard to be disposed of by her personally at a later time. Bellatrix brutally torturing Hermione Granger with the Cruciatus Curse.
Bellatrix proceeded to brutally torture Hermione with the Cruciatus Curse , asking her again and again about the Sword and if they had taken anything else from their vault. Even in extreme pain, Hermione managed to lie, claiming the real sword was only a copy. Griphook also managed to lie, obeying Harry's request to not tell Bellatrix the truth, keeping the trio's secret safe.
After Peter Pettigrew who had been sent to check on the prisoners after hearing a suspicious noise was strangled to death in the cellar with his own silver hand given to him by Voldemort after showing mercy to Harry and Ron escaped the cellar and proceeded up the stairs to aid Hermione. Bellatrix threatened Hermione with her knife, after Harry stunned Greyback and Lucius and Ron disarmed her. While holding the knife to an unconscious Hermione's throat, Bellatrix demanded that the prisoners drop their wands, and then pressed her Dark Mark , calling Voldemort.
However, Dobby who had been sent by Aberforth Dumbledore to rescue Harry and his friends created a diversion by causing the chandelier to fall from above Bellatrix's head, making her release Hermione and jump out of the way.
She lashed out at the house-elf in complete disbelief of his rebellious action to his "former masters". Dobby claimed he was a "free elf" and Disapparated. As the house-elf Disapparated with Harry, Bellatrix threw a silver knife at them in a desperate attempt to prevent their escape, and the Apparition sucked up the knife with it, wounding Dobby in his chest, who then died. She also lost her wand in the skirmish. Bellatrix and her relatives were severely punished by Voldemort for allowing Harry to escape.
After the incident at Malfoy Manor , Hermione used a hair of Bellatrix that had fallen on her while she was torturing her to change herself into Bellatrix using Polyjuice Potion , therefore letting her sneak into Gringotts , as Diagon Alley was infested with Death Eaters. During the Battle of Hogwarts on 2 May , Bellatrix finally succeeded in murdering Nymphadora Tonks , her estranged sister 's daughter.
Bellatrix eagerly asked Voldemort if she could check Harry for signs of life, but was refused again and he instead sent her younger sister to confirm his death. When Narcissa had lied and told Voldemort that Harry was dead, Bellatrix and the other Death Eaters followed Voldemort to Hogwarts to announce Harry's "death", gloating at the despair of the survivors. When the battle resumed, Bellatrix fought Hermione Granger , Ginny Weasley , and Luna Lovegood all at once, having become the last Death Eater standing aside from Voldemort, who was also fighting three opponents.
It was said that despite all three young witches being skilled and working in tandem, together they did not outclass her. She cast a Killing Curse at Ginny, which narrowly missed its mark by an inch; the act was witnessed by both an invisible Harry, who was infuriated enough to actually target Bellatrix over Voldemort, and Molly Weasley. The Weasley matriarch, having already lost one child that night and distraught at the prospect of losing her only daughter, promptly threw off her cloak and shouted a vocal challenge to the Death Eater as she charged forward, causing Bellatrix to cackle with laughter at her.
However, Bellatrix's reckless, arrogant laughter quickly turned to rage as Molly began to attack, making her realise her opponent was more formidable than she had expected. The two began to duel with the intensity of their powers being stated as causing the ground beneath them to become hot and cracked due to their intent to finish the other off once and for all.
Despite this, Bellatrix continued to laugh and mock her opponent with sadistic glee even as Molly's powerful curses missed her by inches, eventually providing an opening for Molly to strike her in the chest with a curse which proved fatal.
As her body toppled to the ground, an outraged Voldemort turned on Molly, which prompted Harry who had watched the battle unfold beneath his Invisibility Cloak to reveal himself.
The final showdown between him and Voldemort ensued, but Bellatrix didn't live to find out that her mistrust of Snape had been valid or see her master's final defeat moments later. During the Calamity which occurred in s across the wizarding world , a portrait of Bellatrix escaped Malfoy Manor as one of the many Foundables , for unknown and mysterious reasons. Bellatrix had the classic "great good looks" and arrogant bearing common for members of the House of Black : She was a tall woman with long, thick, shiny dark hair.
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