The Dark Queen

Bellatrix Lestrange Devout and Dangerous

Vicious & powerful, Bellatrix is a black gem among the Death Eaters. But what makes her special is her devotion to big V, often bordering on insanity. Unlike others who fled after big V’s downfall, Bellatrix as always remained faithful and is still so.
She was born in the pure blood and proud Black Family and followed the family path of marrying into a pure blood family, and also cultivating a hatred towards mudloods and muggles…

Seen first by Harry through the Pensieve during the Longbottom trial, Bellatrix sat on the chair as if it was a throne and declared unwavering devotion to big V. In OoTP, she escapes during the Azkaban breakthrough and rejoins the Dark Lord. She then comes face to face with Harry in the Department of Mysteries. Again there, it is shown that she has no remorse for what she has done and even mocks Neville about it and again applies the cruciatus curse on him to get the Prophecy from Harry.

How she cultivated this merciless and cruel nature, is not known. It was most probably hereditary from her dear mother, who is shown vividly in OoTP through her portrait. Also, her husband and brother in law are shown to be cruel Death Eaters, so the atmosphere at home was not too bright.

Her husband, Rudolphus Lestrange, plays a second fiddle and I am not sure that he is even still alive or not. Family and other issues are secondary for Bellatrix, who only has a bond with Lord Voldemort. She scolds her sister for approaching Snape in HBP, and says that she would happily sacrifice her sons is she had any for big V, and I am sure that she says the truth. Compassion and kindness are alien to her, cruelty and devotion is not.

Her devotion is quite reciprocated by Big V, who calls her “Bella” (which means beautiful… now what can I say?). It was clear in Ministry of Magic. All the other Death Eaters were there, but when Voldemort fled, he took only Bella with him, and it is not known that she was severely punished or not for losing the prophecy. She may not have been excused, but she must not have been tortured liked Avery.

Having vestiges of great looks, Bella now has the marks of Dark Arts on her face, not beautiful anymore. She does not care about such things anymore, her aim being service to Dark Arts. She is quite a respected figure on the web, but she is only praised for her unwavering devotion, and her willingness to tolerate any pains, and also inflict them.

I recently ran across a very interesting article in the North Tower editorials, which mostly deals with the literary side of Harry Potter. Remember the chess match in Philosopher’s stone? Where Ron, Harry and Hermione play the real chess, led by Ron.

The ruthless white queen shown the chess set can be surprisingly identified with our very own Bella. Both are expressionless, merciless and would do anything to prevent their king (Lord V, of course).

Ron takes the knight and the match begins. What happens next- in a shocking move, the White queen hunts down the Black knight. The same way in which Bella killed Sirius Black, an incident which took Harry muck time to absorb. Sirius Black can easily be identified with a knight fighting for Harry, brave and fearless.

The match concludes with Ron sacrificing himself to the White queen so that Harry could take the white king. Is this a message, that Ron, the brave, a little stupid but loyal friend (In short a knight) would die in the Seventh book? It is quite obvious that Bella would not hesitate in doing anything like this.

Interestingly, Bella has is both physically and psychologically different from her sister Narcissa, except for the pure blood thing. Narcissa is pale while she is dark, and obviously Narcissa is quite devoted to her family, while Bellatrix doesn’t give a thought about anything but the big V and elimination of his enemies.
Also, Bella’s married surname, even though she isn’t quite affiliated to her husband, portrays her situation. Lestrange can be rooted to Estrange, which means to turn (a person) from an affectionate or friendly attitude to an indifferent, unfriendly, or hostile one; alienate the affections of.
But obviously, her surname could simply be derived from the word- Strange. Strange, really.
Being the dark queen, Bella had important role to play in the seventh book. She can easily be the medium to kill people, and if somehow she joins the order (which is very, very, highly unlikely), she can prove a boon. But she is born to be a bane for the good people, especially the Longbottoms.

Likely events related to Bella in the seventh book:

• She would be killed by Neville in revenge to his parents
• She would be killed by Harry in revenge to Sirius
• She will kill Ron
• She would be killed by Hermione in revenge to Ron

PS: I wonder who will play her role in the Order of the Phoenix?? Also, why wasn't she shown in GOF in the pensieve scene, (which was heavily edited, showing Barty Crouch and Karkaroff in the same scene)??
I think that the director wanted to preserve her role for higher purposes, which is Quite understandable.