Random Fan Theories About Bellatrix Lestrange That Are Wild Enough To Be True (15 items)

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  (#13) Bellatrix Was Under The Effects Of A Love Potion

  From Redditor u/someonewrongonthenet:

  Bellatrix had once been, the most promising witch of her own generation, before the Dark Lord stole her and broke her, shattered her and reshaped her, binding her to him on a deeper level and with darker arts than any Imperius.
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  (#14) Bellatrix Is Not Delphini's Mother

  From Quora user Yin Shan Ho:

  TLDR: Bellatrix is not Delphi's mother.  At the end of the day, Delphi was brought up by Euphemia Rowle and told of her true heritage by Rodolphus Lestrange. There's no proof whatsoever. The fact that she is Voldemort’s daughter, however, is indisputable.

  She was raised by Euphemia Rowle, but she could have been anyone’s daughter - Euphemia’s, or any other female Death Eater (not Alecto Carrow). All Delphi knew about her heritage was what Rodolphus Lestrange told her - could he have changed the identity of the mother to embellish the story? Bellatrix was old. She was the eldest Black sister (Andromeda and Narcissa were younger). She was 47 at the Battle of Hogwarts/when Delphi was born. And Voldemort was 71. Yes, you can play the “Dark Magic” card to justify two older people having a child, but I think it would have been difficult for her to have overpowered the Snatchers, or fought at the Battle of Hogwarts, whilst carrying a child or having just given birth, at her age.

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  (#7) Bellatrix Wasn't Insane

  From Redditor u/ConsiderableHat:

  Bellatrix is not legally insane: she fully understands the nature and quality of her actions. She doesn't come off as mentally ill much, either; gleefully murderous, cheerfully violent, bigoted even by the prevailing standards of bigotry and fanatically devoted to Voldemort. You might make a case for a touch of hypomania when she's got the prospect of a fight in front of her, but that could just be an attempt to provoke her opponent to get a fight going. (The desire to get in a fight could also be suicidal ideation, something like the warrior-culture ideal of seeking a beautiful death. Which makes it entirely appropriate that she gets surprise-ganked by a maternally outraged housewife.)

  She's entirely rational, just reasoning from absurd premises to morally objectionable conclusions.
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  (#8) Bellatrix And Rodolphous Didn't Further The Lestrange Line Because Of Their Dedication To The Dark Lord

  From Quora user Daniel Elkins:

  Perhaps Bellatrix simply didn’t want an extra distraction from her duties as a Death Eater. She was pretty deeply invested into her role as an inner circle Death Eater. She probably wanted to devote most of her time to furthering the war effort and didn’t want the extra complication of carrying a child, giving birth, and caring/raising one. From what little we know about Rodolphus, he also seems to have been a dedicated follower and would’ve probably had a similar sentiment. Perhaps they planned on waiting until Voldemort conquered England. They were still pretty young at the end of the First Wizarding War, and had plenty of time to worry about the Lestrange line continuing on.

  There’s also the possibility that either Bellatrix or Rodolphus couldn’t have children for whatever reason. This happens in real life often enough and there’s nothing to suggest that wizards or witches are immune. This would give Bella another reason to hate Andromeda, jealous that she was able to have a child when she herself couldn’t.
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  (#11) Lord Voldemort Truly Cared For Bellatrix Lestrange

  From Redditor u/throwawaybellamort:

  First, let me clarify this once and for all that the love potion had no effect on his ability to love. Here's what Rowling said about it. Voldemort would have been different if he had got love as a child but all he got was abuse. The orphanage was so traumatic for him, scarred him so much, that we saw in the DH chapter where he's going to kill Harry that he still has not let go of it. Even after becoming Lord Voldemort and half a century later, he still remembers it as though it was yesterday. The orphanage was what shaped his personality into what we see in the books and made him what he was.

  Since he didn't get any love in his childhood and he was already darkly inclined, his mind was warped as soon as he grew cognizant. The people in the orphanage only aggravated it by calling him mad, bullying, and abusing him. I'm sure there was physical abuse too. He learnt to defend himself in any way he could, especially because he had special powers. He learnt to hate people, to prove to them who he actually was and how wrong they were to treat him, HIM, like that.

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  (#3) Bellatrix Was Bested By Molly Weasley Because She Wasn't Used To Fighting Someone Willing To Kill Her

  From Redditor u/ArguingPizza:

  Part of the explanation may be that Bellatrix was unused to fighting someone who was also willing to use the Killing Curse. Now, in the books it doesn't specifically name the curse that Molly uses to kill Bellatrix, referring to it simply as 'a curse' but it strikes Bellatrix in the chest and kills her almost instantaneously, so it is possible. Additionally, Bella was having so much fun taunting Molly that she got sloppy, and this caused her to slip up and let a curse slip past. Remember, Bellatrix is insane, and this is one of the few times we see her where that weakness comes through in battle.

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