Two things you can be sure of is that Ginny’s sweater once belonged to Fred (or George, I can’t tell them apart) and she stole Charlie’s bag. And yes, she has a “Potter’ stinks” bottom (she tells everyone she has it because it’s true lol, and it always makes Harry blush and she can burst out laughing). Luna made Ginny’s necklace. Oh, and the person who took this picture was Harry.
can someone tell me why they like bellatrix. like actual reasons and not just “she’s hot” or sexual remarks like what did she do or what does she represent like im ?? so curious ?? i love evil women unfortunately i cant understand the hype
because the old cliche of ‘she’s sexy and crazy and evil’ is just that, a cliche. She doesn’t actually torture people for kicks, she tortures people to meet a goal (the reason this doesn’t work isn’t because she’s crazy, it’s because torture doesn’t work, which is a crucial nuance that gets lost when we write bellatrix as like a sexual sadist or so unhinged she doesn’t understand what she’s doing). She’s actually highly intelligent and perceptive–she works out how to get Harry angry in the DoM battle by analyzing the group dynamics and uses her baby voice and screaming to purposefully intimidate him. She feels his badly done cruciatus and instructs him on how to do it better, which is pretty awesome, and speaks to a very interesting person who likely has an academic interest in dark magic. She’s emotionally intelligent enough and a good enough judge of character to pick up on Snape being a traitor, which even Voldemort doesn’t do, and in the process of calling Snape a traitor she reveals that she is capable of disagreeing with Voldemort and doubting his judgement, which many of the other Death Eaters never do. She loves her sister Narcissa enough that she will betray Voldemort’s wishes for her, and this extends enough to Draco that she teaches him Occlumency (which again implies she has emotional control and magical skill) though she also has high standards and some degree of contempt for him. She appears to be a fanatical believer in pureblood supremacy but she also contrasts with Narcissa in bucking gender roles: she barely interacts with her husband and if she did have children did so with another man. She refuses to be the ideal of the pureblood wife and woman while wanting to uphold the system of pureblood supremacy that imposes those expectations on women. She has a great sense of drama and political theater (I think her proclamation of loyalty at her trial was just that, political theater to affirm death eater strength in the face of defeat). She is devoted to Voldemort but she also doubts him and recognizes him as a potential threat to her family in the Malfoy Manor capture scene when she doesn’t summon Voldemort–that scene is also really interesting because she is contemptuous of Lucius throughout but also seems to treat him as a part of her family and thus worthy of her protection. She’s loyal, but not blind. And she’s one of the more competent death eaters and in one of the most powerful positions we see a woman in.
The fanon cliche of the sexy evil crazy villain isn’t all that interesting, but there are the bones of a much more interesting character, probably more interesting than JKR intended even, if you look beyond the cliche. If you take Bellatrix seriously, you can make her complex and even potentially sympathetic, or complex and a more compelling and threatening villain.
