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Today, The Stones and The Grandma have been talking with Sirius Black and Nymphadora Tonks about Bellatrix Lestrange, their most sadistic relative, an English pure-blood Dark witch and loyal follower of Lord Voldemort.
Bellatrix Lestrange was who captured and tortured the Aurors Frank and Alice Longbottom, parents of Neville Longbottom.
Before talking about Bellatrix Lestrange, The Grandma has offered The Stones a new Cambridge Key English Test A2 Example.
Bellatrix Lestrange, née Black, is an English pure-blood Dark witch, the eldest daughter of Cygnus and Druella Rosier, and the elder sister of Andromeda Tonks and Narcissa Malfoy.
She was a member of the House of Black, an old wizarding family and one of the Sacred Twenty-Eight. Bellatrix started her education at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry and was Sorted into Slytherin House.
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 Lord Voldemort's fall from power, Bellatrix, her husband Rodolphus Lestrange, her brother-in-law Rabastan Lestrange, and Barty Crouch Jr captured and tortured the Aurors Frank and Alice Longbottom, seeking information about Lord Voldemort's whereabouts which eventually drove the two Aurors insane.
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The four Death Eaters were caught and sentenced to life imprisonment in Azkaban.
Lord Voldemort eventually returned to full strength 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.
Bellatrix secretly gave birth to an illegitimate daughter named Delphini, whom she conceived with her beloved master, Lord Voldemort.
Bellatrix was born 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.
Bellatrix attended Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry and was Sorted into Slytherin House, a patron followed by her sisters.
Bellatrix and a group of Lord Voldemort's followers, including Barty Crouch Jr, 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 Lord Voldemort's whereabouts, until the two captives were driven into insanity when they refused to divulge anything. As a result of the torture, Alice and Frank spent the rest of their lives at St Mungo's Hospital for Magical Maladies and Injuries and were unaware that they had a son together.
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.
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Unlike many other Death Eaters, Bellatrix didn't lie about her loyalty -she proudly claimed that she was loyal to Lord 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 already unstable mentality, as well as hollowing out her appearance until only the faintest traces of her familial beauty remained.
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 Lord Voldemort, as well as the Dementors whom Albus Dumbledore correctly predicted would side with Lord Voldemort.
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Bellatrix had the classic great good looks and arrogant bearing common for members of the House of Black: She was a tall woman of white skin; and long, thick, shiny dark hair. Her face had a strong jaw, thin lips, and heavily-lidded eyes with long eyelashes.
As a Death Eater, Bellatrix bore the Dark Mark on her inner left forearm. However, her lengthy imprisonment in Azkaban took a toll on her appearance -her face became gaunt and skull-like, but she still managed to retain some vestige of her great beauty.
Bellatrix was an intensely sadistic witch with brutal, violent tendencies. She possessed a fierce and dangerous temper, a trait that she shared with her cousin Sirius and her aunt Walburga and which was likely a result of the inbreeding that plagued her birth family.
Bellatrix was one of Voldemort's cruellest Death Eaters, always eager to inflict the Cruciatus Curse on enemies.
Harry Potter noted that she was as mad as her master. Likely for these reasons, Bellatrix was slavishly devoted to Lord Voldemort and was willing to do whatever it took for his cause. She believed to have proven her loyalty by her time in Azkaban, an event which had seemingly furthered her mental decline.
Overall, Bellatrix was obsessed with blood purity and took immense pride in the aristocracy of her family since a young age. Like all the rest of Lord Voldemort's followers, she was vehemently against all: half-bloods, Muggle-borns, Muggles, and half-breeds.
Despite her cruel personality, Bellatrix was not incapable of caring for a few people. She was obsessively in love with her master, Lord Voldemort. She had a close relationship with her younger sister Narcissa Malfoy. She also showed affection for her nephew and student Draco Malfoy, but didn't seem to be too concerned about his safety.
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Like many members of the House of Black, Bellatrix's name is derived from that of a star. Bellatrix is the third brightest star in the constellation Orion. It is also known as the Amazon Star.
The Amazons were warrior women in Greek mythology, which is presumably an allusion to Bellatrix being among the most dangerously skilled Death Eaters. Her name likely has Latin, French and English origins: Bella is Latin both for the plural of bellum, meaning war, and the feminine singular adjective meaning beautiful; trix is Latin feminine suffix.
Bellatrix is the Latin word for a female warrior or a personification of feminine beauty. Bellatrix also translates directly to war-like.
Lestrange is likely a play on l'étrange, which is French meaning the strange one. Her name thus alludes to her own mental instability, although technically Lestrange came from Bellatrix's husband Rodolphus.
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My Lord, it is an honour to have you here,
in our family's house.
There can be no higher pleasure.
Bellatrix Lestrange
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