About Me
Bellatrix Black was born in 1951 to Cygnus and Druella (Rosier) Black. She is described as a tall woman with sleek black hair, a thin mouth, heavily lidded eyes, pale skin, and the Black family's patrician good looks and bearing. Bellatrix married Rodolphus Lestrange after graduating from Hogwarts. It is implied that she has no children.
Bellatrix is related by blood and marriage to many characters in the novels: she has two younger sisters, Andromeda and Narcissa. Andromeda married a muggle, Ted Tonks, and was subsequently disowned by the Blacks; Narcissa married Lucius Malfoy, scion of a wealthy pure-blood family. She is also a first cousin to Sirius and Regulus Black, and an aunt to Nymphadora Tonks and Draco Malfoy.
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At school, Bellatrix associated with a group of students - including Avery, Rodolphus and Rabastan Lestrange, Evan Rosier, Severus Snape, and Wilkes - who nearly all became Death Eaters. It is assumed she was drawn to Lord Voldemort because they both believe in an ideology that favors pure-bloods over other wizarding folk. This elitist notion, shared by the Malfoy and Lestrange clans, was ingrained in Bellatrix since childhood by her family. (The Black family motto, "toujours pur" (fr. "always pure"), reflects their steadfast belief in blood purity.) Although a proud and intelligent woman, Bellatrix is also a sadist and murderer.
Bellatrix and her husband were active in Voldemort's rise to power, and managed to evade capture and suspicion until after the Dark Lord's downfall on 31 October 1981. Rather than desert their leader like many other Death Eaters, Bellatrix, Rodolphus, Rabastan, and Barty Crouch Jr. magically tortured two well-known Aurors - Frank and Alice Longbottom - in an attempt to gain information about Voldemort's location. For using the Unforgivable Cruciatus Curse to drive the Longbottoms insane, Bellatrix and her three associates were sentenced to life imprisonment in Azkaban. At their trial, Bellatrix proudly and defiantly proclaimed, "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!"[2] After his rebirthing ritual, Voldemort stated that the Lestranges were among the most faithful members of his inner circle.
Fourteen years later, Bellatrix was one of the many Death Eaters who broke out of Azkaban and rejoined Voldemort in January of 1996. Bellatrix was changed psychologically and physically by her time in prison. Her good looks were reduced to a remnant of their former beauty, making her appear gaunt and skull-like in mug shots printed in the The Daily Prophet.
Bellatrix was present, in June of 1996, at the battle of the Department of Mysteries, in which a group of Death Eaters attempted to steal Sybill Trelawney's prophecy pertaining to Voldemort's downfall. During the mission she proved her magical prowess by defeating two Aurors (Nymphadora Tonks and Kingsley Shacklebolt) in one-on-one duels, killing her cousin Sirius by knocking him through the Veil in the Death Chamber, and deflecting one of Albus Dumbledore's spells as she made her escape. Bellatrix was the only Death Eater to evade capture after fighting in the Department. However, she was subdued by Dumbledore in the Ministry of Magic's Atrium after dueling with Harry Potter. Voldemort interceded on her behalf, freeing and Disapparating with her.
Although Bellatrix's state of mind before her imprisonment is not fully described, she now appears to be of unsound mind. In the Department of Mysteries, Bellatrix took ghoulish delight in recounting her crime against the Longbottoms and subsequently torturing their son, Neville. She mocked Harry Potter in a false baby voice, and was easily provoked (a temper that seems to run in her family). Bellatrix also seems paranoid; while following her sister to Spinner's End, she impulsively killed a fox for fear that it was an Animagus spy. As a whole, however, her appearance in Half-Blood Prince seems to suggest a greater degree of lucidity: She demonstrates intelligence and the capacity for critical thought in her interrogation of Severus Snape at Spinner's End. Her speech is passionate and at times erratic, however, and it is also clear that her views and morals remain deeply skewed. Bellatrix's behavior is unquestionably twisted and cruel, but it is not necessarily indicative of insanity.
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