Actually...

[lunesque]

I've really been meaning to post on this for a while.

nonewwitticisms and I were talking about Harry Potter several weeks ago, when we got into a discussion on Bellatrix Lestrange, and he said that not only was she evil and he hated her, but that Bellatrix had to be insane in order to torture the Longbottoms and laugh about it, and that Azkaban just sent her even further.

I, on the other hand, firmly believe she was perfectly sane when she tortured the Longbottoms, that she didn't laugh about it because she was insane, but that she laughed about it because she enjoyed it so much. And that Azkaban made her as insane as we see her now.

So what about you all? Give me everything you've got on Bellatrix Lestrange. I'm dying to hear your thoughts. ^_^

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I'm also leaving this entry unlocked just in case I get lucky and more people than those from my flist answer. If anyone answers at all... ^^;; *hopes*

Comments

[nonewwitticisms.livejournal.com]

But insane implies to me that she had no conscious decision in what she was doing

No, I don't think it does mean that. I think it was a decision, sure, and I think she enjoyed it. Absolutely. But to say that she was perfectly sane when she did it implies nothing more than an extreme sadism. Nope nope. She's a frickin' nutjob. Maybe in her mind destroying a soul makes her more powerful. Maybe she thought the gods (or Voldemort, who's pretty much the same thing to her in this instance) would smile on her for doing their work.

No. Not just fucked up, genuinely insane.