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Before he started his relationship with Bellatrix, during the period in which Voldemort had already realized he was interested in her, I imagine him looking at Bella in the most sensual and hungry way possible. And also the way he moved was particularly sinuous. In short, he was a true master of seduction.

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Bellatrix/ Tom

"I am not the damsel; I am the distress."

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Shall we talk for a moment about how cute Bellatrix is ​​when she blushes after years because of a compliment from Voldemort? What a sweetheart!

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Bellatrix is not a 'career woman'. God, I hate it when people put women in two boxes that are either career women or family women. Women, like men, are multifaceted people and Bellatrix never was and never will be some corporate girlboss kind of woman, so stop trying to sanitise her into a feminist archetype.

Bella was wild and sadistic and she was in love but her love didn't make her weaker at all. No, she didn't want to nurture a baby but she did want Voldemort and she had his baby not because she necessarily wanted to be a mother but because he put it in her. She chose to submit to Voldemort willingly and hungrily and her submission was not weakness at. She chose it because she was the only one who truly understood him and vice versa. She did not reject what was expected of her in favour of a career but to be true to herself. Voldemort taught her the Dark Arts and he gave her a life so much greater than what was expected of her, but that didn't make her independent of men. She was still dependent on one man. The man.

It's great if you want a woman who rejects motherhood and finds purpose outside of traditional roles, but Bellatrix didn't reject men. She didn't do what she did instead of love but because of a love so fierce it looks like madness to people who don't understand her. She is driven by passion for him and for life itself, not career goals! You already have Umbridge if you want a girlboss and I think she really needs more appreciation!

Bellatrix is the female Death Eater par excellence. It's an interesting thing about female psychopaths, they often need to meet a male counterpart to release that part of themselves and that's how I see Bellatrix. Voldemort is her idol, her obsession, the only person to whom she feels subservience. - JKR about Bellatrix

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All I see is red

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I hope the new Harry Potter show brings in more Bellatrix/Lord Voldemort fans that appreciate the characters for who they are and not just the fanon versions of them. Don’t get me wrong have fun with fanon. Even I enjoy a little fanon, but the way people latch onto the fanon versions of the characters/ships in general so much that they disregard the real canon versions makes me lowkey sad and a little annoyed tbh.

I also hope the new show brings in more Bellamort fans that like and appreciate the relationship for what it is and sees the complexity, yet beauty of it. I hope those same fans believe Bellamort is canon because well… IT IS sorry not sorry.

And not just Bellamort but also all the canon couples in Harry Potter like Romione, Hinny, Drastoria, Remadora, Lucissa, etc. The characters themselves in general too.

I’ve just been thinking about this a lot lately so I thought I share. This is in no way me hating or bashing on fanon, but we need to remember what the real story entails and not just completely go off the rail with fanon that we pretend canon doesn’t exist.

I know there are people that appreciate canon but fanon is way to popular that it’s hard to find them sometimes. But I digress now. Just another one of my hopes that comes with the show.

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Raise wands for our Dark Lord and our Dark Mistress, who fought to the end with strength and courage.

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You love the idea that Voldemort initially tried everything to reject Bellatrix but then he wanted her so much that he couldn't pretend it wasn't there.

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Do you want to be a queen, Miss Black? No. I want to be THE queen.

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I don't know why Voldemort having children is so strange to some people. In fact, maybe he planned for immortality and no longer needed to continue his lineage, but maybe this was also an emergency button for him. On the other hand, maybe this was a reward from master to Bellatrix and maybe she asked Voldemort for a child. She wished that her beloved master would give her a child of his own blood in return for one of the things she did, such as killing Sirius Black. And if he saw his daughter, maybe he would have no feelings for her and would have left her. We don't know his true reaction And yes, Voldemort couldn't fall in love, but he wasn't a neutered or castrated man. Animals don't fall in love either. Sometimes people fall in love without having sex. (Stay away from people who equate the two)

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Bellatrix: My husband said I shouldn't come here anymore.

Voldemort: And yet here you are...on my lap.

Bellatrix: I'm such a bad wife.

Voldemort, smirking: No. You're a good Death Eater.

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Bellamort: Love and thunder

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I think you ignore the following fact on purpose, but I'll mention it cause it makes all the difference: Bellatrix is a stranger to Voldemort. She's not his relative, not his spouse, not his Horcrux. He had no reason to mourn or avenge someone he only "used as a tool", but he did. While Nagini is a living vault for a piece of Voldemort's soul. Her death upsets him cause it brings HIM closer to death, not cause SHE is someone special. She's no different from a locket or a cup, except she can move and talk.

Bellamort shippers keep insisting that Voldemort only reacted emotionally to Bellatrix’s death, when he reacted the same way to Nagini's death 😭

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It's actually so poetic that only the Bellamort fandom understands who Voldemort truly is and appreciates and accepts him for it, while those who ship him with others always misunderstand him, trying to turn him into something he's not and would hate to be.

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If there's one thing I find completely implausible when it comes to shipping, it's Voldemort being paired with characters he’d consider unworthy of him and be disgusted by. This includes Muggleborns like Hermione and Lily, as well as underbeings like human Nagini.

I know some people want to separate him from Pureblood supremacy, but everything in the books points to him genuinely believing in it, whether or not some of his fans find it rational. There is no evidence that he used it solely for power, and his belief in it is inherent to who he is as a character. His childhood hatred of his Muggle heritage is essential to his identity. From a young age, he despised his Muggle father and non-magical bloodline and eventually killed them. In his own words, he 'pruned his family tree until only true blood (the blood of Slytherin) remained'. And this was before he even had the Death Eaters.

If he only cared about magic, he could have followed Grindelwald’s ideology, but he was the heir of Slytherin, and one of Salazar’s primary goals was the eradication of Muggleborns. That is what Voldemort strived to do. It is what the heir of Slytherin was meant to do. To ever see Muggbleborns as anything but unworthy creatures needing eradication would strip him of his legitimacy as Slytherin's heir.

As for underbeings ('an individual, either fully human or part-human, without powers but of magical ancestry') like human Nagini, he would abhor them even more. Magic was the core of his identity. It made him special, it was his protection, his source of power, and everything he was. How could he even look at someone who couldn’t do magic?

Shipping him with a talentless Pureblood would make much more sense than shipping him with a very talented Muggleborn. Luckily for him, he had an incredibly talented Pureblood in Bellatrix. No Muggleborn was ever half as good as her.

“He desired her, that was all,” sneered Voldemort, “but when she had gone, he agreed that there were other women, and of purer blood, worthier of him — ”

He even considered Lily, with all her magical talent, unworthy of someone like Snape, simply because she was Muggleborn. He states this as a fact, that blood purity made someone worthier. If even powerful, exceptional Muggleborns weren’t good enough for a follower like Snape, why would he ever see one as worthy of himself?

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Goodbye, winter ❄️

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Barty Crouch Jr. had constant access to Harry at Hogwarts. He could have transported Harry to Voldemort at any time. Instead, Voldemort specifically orchestrated an elaborate plan centered around the Triwizard Tournament because if Harry died or disappeared during a notoriously dangerous magical tournament, it wouldn't raise immediate suspicion of foul play. The tournament was known for fatalities as Bagman mentions. The death toll got so high they had to cancel it. Harry's death could have been written off as a tragic tournament accident.

It's clear that Voldemort didn't want the Ministry or wider wizarding world to know he was back until he had rebuilt his power base. A mysterious disappearance or death during a dangerous tournament would be far less suspicious than Harry vanishing from the Hogwarts corridors.

We see this approach continue in OotP. He operates entirely in secret, letting the Ministry discredit themselves by denying his return, and Bellatrix also mentions this during the Department of Mysteries battle:

“Get it himself?” shrieked Bellatrix on a cackle of mad laughter.“The Dark Lord, walk into the Ministry of Magic, when they are so sweetly ignoring his return? The Dark Lord, reveal himself to the Aurors, when at the moment they are wasting their time on my dear cousin?

This raises the question of why Voldemort, who had maintained his secrecy for a year, came to the Ministry at all. More than that, why not leave after he'd duelled Dumbledore? He had already lost the prophecy and the opportunity to kill Harry, so why stay to rescue Bellatrix? Instead, he took the time to break the statue pinning her down and grabbed her before disapparating, knowing Ministry officials were moments away from arriving.

He was seen rescuing her.

He could easily have freed her with the rest of his followers especially since the Dementors were under his control then. He didn't even assign her anything before rescuing the rest of the Death Eaters in DH, and he waited a year to rescue even them despite controlling the Dementors, so clearly he didn't need them during HBP. Among them were Rodolphus, Rabastan, and Antonin Dolohov, who were also known for their loyalty and were very powerful.

For a man who had orchestrated an entire year-long tournament scheme just to keep his return hidden, who had repeatedly emphasised the importance of secrecy to his followers, who had carefully operated in shadows to rebuild his power base...he threw it all away in an instant to save one follower from temporary imprisonment.

Could it be because she was more than just a follower?