#Rabastan Lestrange

[swiftiereg]

Pandora Lovegood / Rosier / Lestrange / Malfoy / Trelawney / Fawley / Lupin / Delacour / Ollivander appreciation post. (Why does this woman have so many possible last names. why.)

[lemongrass77777]

Marauders era characters’s social media handles

(Regulus not included bcuz I don’t think he’d have any socials)

James: @/prongedbastard69

Sirius: @/grimdog-baredteeth

Remus: @/r-full-of-wanderlust

Peter: @/rattack-the-cheese

Lily: @/ungilded-lily

Severus: @/halfbloodprince666

Mulciber: @/butcheredtongue44

Kingsley: @/roundtableofaurum

Mary: @/rosyquarts59

Hestia: @/jone-of-archs

Marlene: @/firecracking-beats

Dorcas: @/disciple-of-sappho

Caradoc: @/darnedwitches-55

Emmeline: @/monarch-o-valor

Pandora: @/mysterious-wench1111

Xenophilius: @/stranger-of-the-stars1111

Barty Jr: @/controlofthemind420

Rabastan: @/bjc-s-boy

(I included way too many characters in this)

[harry-potter-ships]

PART 2

[jamespotterismommy]

need a gilmore girls au with regulus as rory, sirius as lorelai, dean=rabastan, jess=barty, logan=james

endgame jegulus bc logan is the best for rory (besides ayitl… we dont talk abt that)

[lulublack90]

Prompt 15 - Posion

@jegulus-microfic February 15 Word count 991

Previous part First part

“Kreacher!” He called out as he entered Grimmauld Place. The house elf appeared at his side with a crack and bent low in a bow. 

“Yes, Master?” 

“Where are my parents?” He asked, praying they weren’t in the house. 

“They at the country Manor, Master.” The elf answered. 

“Good,” Regulus nodded. “Keep them there as long as you can. And if they try to return, tell them I have said I need the house.”

“Yes, Master.” Kreacher bowed again before disapparating. 

Regulus stumbled to the kitchen. He needed a drink. The fire had parched him. He summoned a bottle of butterbeer, removed the cork and took a swig. He immediately spat it out, coating the table in sticky spray. It tasted like poison. Gingerly, he sniffed the contents of the bottle. Yep, that wasn’t butterbeer. He poured it down the sink and got water instead. 

He wouldn’t have long before he was summoned, so he tried to collect himself. He’d have liked to find Evan and Barty and check on them, but he wouldn’t have time to track them down. He assumed Evan had taken Barty to his house rather than back to Barty Sr. 

He dropped his glass when his left forearm suddenly shot through with burning pain. He was being summoned to Malfoy Manor. 

He cleared away the mess he’d made and left the house to apparate. 

Voldemort was in a rage when he arrived. He was storming around the formal dining room with the ginormous mahogany table. 

“We have a spy! Someone has tipped them off about our plan!” He spun when Regulus entered. “Come here, Master Black.” Regulus didn’t hesitate and strode straight to Voldemort’s side. Clawed hands shot up and dug into his face as Voldemort drove into his head for the second time that day. 

This time, he pulled Regulus’s mind apart slower, still painful, maybe more painful than before, but he lingered in each memory, looking for any signs that Regulus had told the Order something. Regulus had those memories well hidden, and because of his mother’s relentless drills when he was younger, he was always on guard for legimency attacks.

“My Lord,” Lucius Malfoy spoke, unexpectedly coming to Regulus’s defence. “It is doubtful that he could have told anyone when the attack was happening. We were with him when he found out we were going today, and it was you yourself that put the charms on Grimmauld Place, stopping owls and patronuses from leaving or entering the property.” Voldemort dropped Regulus’s face.

“Yessss, I suppose you do have a point.” He hissed. “I want whoever revealed our plans to the Order found, Lucius.” 

“Of course, my Lord.” Lucius bowed deeply, reminding Regulus of Kreacher. Lucius wrapped an arm around Regulus’s shoulder and steered him away towards Narcissa. 

Narcissa fussed over him, straightening his robes and smoothing his shirt collar before he batted her away. 

“Leave him be, Narcissa.” Lucius hissed through his teeth at his wife. Regulus ignored them, looking around the room as he silently counted how many death eaters returned and which important names were left. A lot were missing. 

Bellatrix came smashing through the door, throwing a fit, Rabastan following close behind. Evidently, Rodolphus had been captured. 

She stormed towards Voldemort. 

“My Lord! They have Rodolphus!” Voldemort stopped any further words from escaping Bella’s mouth by flicking his hand out and wrapping it around her throat. 

“I do not care about your husband. I want to know who betrayed me!” Bellatrix clawed at his hand as he squeezed tighter, his face twisting into a sneer. Nobody helped her lest they incur Voldemort’s wrath themselves. When she stopped struggling, he tossed her onto the floor, where she gasped, trying to force air into her bruised throat. 

Regulus felt the mirror in his pocket heat as James tried to contact him. He had insisted they add this charm to the mirror rather than have the caller’s voice call out. This would be a dead giveaway if, like now, whoever had the other mirror tried to get in contact. He had to ignore the caller, even though his fingers itched to open the small compact. 

When it was clear that no more death eaters would be coming, Voldemort began digging through all their brains, looking for the traitor. He found nothing, which only incensed him more. 

“Where are Rosier and Crouch? I don’t recall them being in the later part of the attack.” Regulus stepped forward, putting on his best aristocratic mask. 

“Forgive me, my Lord, but Bartemius was injured, and I told Evan to get him away from the battle.”

“And what gives you the authority to give those orders, young master Black?” Voldemort’s red eyes seemed to glow as he questioned Regulus.

“You yourself told us that Bartemius was useful to our cause, and I determined that you would prefer that his father not found out he was there.” Voldemort’s face split into an approximation of a smile. 

“And that is why we have missed you greatly since you have been away, dear Regulus.” He turned to the rest of his congregation. “You see, Regulus here sees the bigger picture. We may have lost this battle, but we shall still win this war.” Cheers erupted once Voldemort had finished his speech. “You may leave me. I require time to plan our next move.” The death eaters hurried from the room, whispering amongst themselves, trying to guess who the traitor could be. 

Regulus positioned himself amongst the exiting death eaters and left quickly. 

As soon as he was locked in his bedroom and had cast silencing charms, he pulled out the small silver mirror and whispered. 

“James?” James’s image immediately showed in the mirror, replacing his own. 

“Reg! Reg, are you alright? You didn’t answer!” He sounded panicked, his eyes overly bright. Regulus felt a tightening in his chest as the need to be in James’s arms took over. 

“Can we meet?”  

Next part

[star-struck-withantlers]

"Fucking hell, is he smiling?" Rabastan asks. "I didn't know he could do that. James Potter, you've got skills."

I kinda like this guy

[yourhonoriwoulddieforthem]

Crimson Rivers latest chapter got me imagining Barty and Rabastan as the little devil and angel on Regulus’ shoulders.

"Regulus," Rabastan says, his voice low, "don't."

"Regulus do," Barty counters gleefully. "That's your fiancé they're talking about. Fuck them up! Defend your man!"

*

"Regulus, stop," Rabastan says firmly.

"No, keep going, this shit is hilarious," Barty announces.

*

"Yeah, that's his I'm-ready-to-kill-you face," Barty agrees.

"No one can kill anyone!" Rabastan bursts out.

[ginny-anime]

Rabastan: rodolphus have you ever been able to win an argument against bellatrix?

Rodolphus: we never argue. she speaks and I shut up

[enbysiriusblack]

marauders ship battle

submitted propaganda:

dorcas/marlene

most tragic ship ever. also lesbians. and enemies to lovers. they're like every tragic romantic myth all in one. dorcas literally went on a killing spree to avenge marlene?? fucking true love, mate. they're everything to each other. also butch4butch rep!!!!

"different houses, opposites attract"

[nauticalparamour]

Sneak Peek | Linen & Curls

Coming Wednesday

"I assume that you already know what it is that you are holding in your hand, Mr. Black," Hermione said, hoping to seem respectful for the moment. She obviously didn't have her wand at the moment, so that meant that she was somewhat at their mercy for the moment. And she remembered Sirius saying for all his faults, his father was still an exemplary wizard, with a suspicious mind.

"A time turner," he answered, his lips quirked in curiosity, highlighting the thin black mustache across his upper lip.

"So that should surely answer at least some of your questions about where I've come from," she explained, looking between the two of them. "I'll ask again. What year is it?" She wished that she'd spent more time exploring the Black family tree. At least then she'd have a better idea of when Walburga and Orion had died, so she wouldn't be quite so dependent on them.

The married couple looked between each other, having a silent conversation with one another. Finally, Orion returned his attention to her. "It is 1977," he answered.

"19—fuck," Hermione whispered under her breath. She had never imagined traveling back nearly two decades through time. In fact, time travel of that length was not even theoretically possible! Everyone who had attempted it had never been seen again, on account of not being able to move forward in time.

[theatregorl]

Marauders era band AU headcanon requested by the little man in my brain

⚠️tw: mentions of abuse and implied mental health issues, also light swearing⚠️

• Bellatrix, Andromeda, Narcissa, and Regulus had a band called “The Death Eaters”

• Rita Skeeter was a reporter, in fact one of the only ones the band agreed to have interviews with

• after Regulus, transitioned (everyone was supportive) he decided to leave the band and stepped out of the spotlight for several months, before returning with another band “Snakes and Skittles” (like the Slytherin skittles but not bc it’s modern/muggle AU)

• Bellatrix was in a Relationship with the band manager, Tom Riddle, for a while

• he severely manipulated abused her and basically blackmailed her into silence

• no one knew, not even Andromeda, and when Bellatrix became more stressed and bitchy, for what seemed like no reason, that among other things led her to leave the band and join their rival band “the Order of the Phoenix”

• Now only down to two band members, the girls decided to get some recruits for a new band of Death Eaters

• the new members included Zoya Zabini, Lucius Malfoy, and Rodolphus and Rabastan Lestrange

• Narcissa didn’t like these changes, her only family anymore was Bella, and she was different than the sister she knew

• then, when she developed a crush on the guitar player for The Order, Alice Fortescue, and even considered leaving the band

• but she knew she couldn’t leave Bellatrix

•but she had no one she could talk to about anything, so she wrote her feelings down

• which progressed to her releasing an album independently

• Bellatrix was pissed when she found out, it was less about the album itself, and more the fact that Cissa had kept it a secret from her

and again that’s all for now lol

[lemongrass77777]

queer hcs for marauders era characters?

Sirius: they’re either aroace or a bambi gay to me? It depends on my mood. Also he’s bigender(male and maverique)

James: Bisexual, he’s deep in denial about it and thinks everyone has sexual fantasies about their best friend of the same gender

Remus: trans male(he came across the name Remus in a book and was like “omg that fits so well” and then when he was at school he learned about the myth of Remus and Romulus and was devastated)

Peter: gay gay homosexual gay

Petunia: another deeply in denial bisexual

Narcissa: greyromantic/bisexual

Hestia: bisexual/asexual

Severus: gynesexual

Barty: gay af

Rabastan: is only attracted to men and people know about his male lovers but is still convinced he’s straight

[saintsenara]

I’m obsessed with your Percy/Rodolphus fic, so I just wanted to get some more of your thoughts on who you think the Lestrange brothers are/what they’re like. They’re often overlooked in this fandom but I personally love them. (PS your answer to my Frank/Rabastan question was amazing. Thank you!)

thank you so much, anon! this is a lovely ask and i'm so thrilled you've enjoyed subluxation.

i've been joking quite a lot while writing it that it’s tricked me into finding rodolphus and rabastan lestrange fascinating, having never cared about them before. but this is - it’s time to come clean - not strictly true... obviously, as a bellamort shipper, poor cuckolded roddy has had to take up some space in my brain, but also the family appears in quite a lot of my other writing and i have quite a lot of headcanon lore i appear to have ascribed to them…

most of this - unsurprisingly - surrounds the family’s relationship with voldemort. while the evidence of canon is that the malfoys are voldemort’s favourite accomplices - at least until lucius falls from grace after failing to retrieve the prophecy - i am much fonder of the idea that the lestranges are the dark lord’s most important death eaters and that the family has been in voldemort’s orbit since the second he arrived at hogwarts.

i do not - however - think that the lestrange originally ensnared is either rodolphus or rabastan. i know many people choose to interpret the mention in half-blood prince of a lestrange in the slug club alongside tom riddle as referring to rodolphus - and i do see the interesting things which can be done both with the idea of him as voldemort’s oldest friend [and, therefore, fully aware of his real name, appearance, and background, while his wife is not] and the idea of him as much older than bellatrix. but i much prefer the idea of voldemort having an impact which is distinct across three separate generations: you have the knights of walpurgis, who become the first death eaters, who know the proto-voldemort of the 1940s and 1950s, with all his messy human characteristics; then you have these men’s sons, who know the unassailable paramilitary kingpin of the 1970s, who seems to be a force of pure magic; then you have these men’s sons, who know the paranoid, monstrous voldemort of the 1990s and his single-minded obsession with harry potter. or, in other words, you have abraxas malfoy - then lucius malfoy - then draco malfoy, each trying to square the voldemort that’s in front of them with the voldemort they once knew.

hence my favourite original character: rodolphus and rabastan’s father, romulus augustulus lestrange. named for the last - and worst - roman emperor.

i am - as any good tomarry shipper - obsessed with the parallels between harry and voldemort, and i originally came up with romulus in order to provide voldemort with his very own ron weasley. the two meet on the hogwarts express when romulus sits in tom’s compartment, it’s romulus who acts as the insider to the magical world who helps tom adjust to his new life in the castle, and it’s romulus who convinces tom while they’re heading north that the only house worth being in is slytherin. i like him then remaining tom’s ride-or-die even through his teen edgelord days, his depressed retail-worker days, and his long sojourn on the continent.

[although readers of my tomarry wip one year in every ten will be aware that his relationship with the young voldemort is not entirely a happy one…]

i write rodolphus and rabastan as being born in 1949 and 1953 respectively and as having some sort of acquaintance with voldemort as children - indeed, one headcanon i use, if the story fits it, is that voldemort is both brothers’ godfather. this means that, when voldemort returns from albania in 1966, both are in their teens and - rodolphus especially - are all too susceptible to the revolutionary miracle voldemort is promising. i imagine that rodolphus - in conjunction with lucius malfoy - is the dark lord’s best recruiter of young pureblood men in the later 1960s and early 1970s, and that these men are much more interested in open violence than their fathers, who support voldemort as a political leader within the wizarding world’s established framework, rather than as a terrorist.

which means, of course, that i think that rodolphus is the person who recruits bellatrix.

while i like the potential of bellatrix and rodolphus’ canon vibe being caused by the gulf of a large age gap, i really like them as a clear illustration of the way in which pureblood society’s rigid gender roles stifle potential - and, therefore, think that they marry the second bellatrix finishes school, in an arranged marriage they both go through with because it’s what they think they ought to do [and i think that voldemort’s affair with her starts almost simultaneously - i think it’s important, when thinking about bellatrix’s radicalisation, that all the evidence of canon is that she’s groomed to be a terrorist when she’s barely out of her teens by a man old enough to be her father, and voldemort - who, when she’s 19, is 44 - being her only proper experience of a romantic or sexual relationship is quite a key part of that]. i am wedded to the idea that the marriage is profoundly unhappy - but not abusive or toxic - because neither bellatrix nor rodolphus really like each other - they get along cordially enough, but there’s no real passion or affection between them.

the only exception to this is their passion for voldemort and his terrorist organisation. the implication of canon is that bellatrix is the more zealous of the two - and that she is the ringleader of their attack on the longbottoms, while rodolphus and rabastan are just doing as they’re told - but i don’t buy it. i think rodolphus is a hardcore death eater, that he is entrusted with high-level missions throughout the 1970s, and that voldemort values him incredibly highly prior to 1996, when our evidence is that he’s also sent to azkaban having been caught in the department of mysteries alongside lucius malfoy.

[and one high-level thing i think he’s entrusted with is the knowledge of what - exactly - is in his vault…]

which means, i think, that he is probably slightly more disillusioned than bellatrix once he’s broken out of prison for a second time in july 1997. i am now convinced that the role he plays in subluxation - essentially pius thicknesse’s childminder - is one he agrees to because he thinks it’ll keep him safer than being at voldemort’s side as he grows more and more volatile - and i am also convinced [because, i hate to say, i’m a delphini truther] that he flees the battle of hogwarts the second harry springs out of hagrid’s arms and goes on the run with his dead wife and dead master’s lovechild.

rabastan - on the other hand - gets given up by lucius malfoy as part of his plea deal and shuffled off for life in azkaban.

indeed, i really like rabastan as… a bit of a flop. whereas i think rodolphus has a genuine capacity for sadism, i prefer rabastan in what we might call the draco malfoy vein - someone who is profoundly unpleasant and who believes wholeheartedly in blood-supremacy, but who doesn’t have the stomach to actually follow this through with violence. i like the idea of him as someone voldemort finds quite unimpressive, and i also like the idea that rodolphus - since awful people are never wholly awful, nor good ones wholly good - puts himself in considerable danger to protect his younger brother from the dark lord’s anger by fixing his mistakes and covering for his fuck-ups.

and i am now really, really into the concept of rabastan and frank longbottom!

the only other headcanons that i am absolutely set on when it comes to the lestranges are that their ancestral home is in brancaster, in norfolk [a very beautiful, but not not desolate place], and that romulus has a great love of flying horses which is passed down to both of his sons.

[sofoulandfairaday]

1 for the ask game

from: choose violence ask game

1. the character everyone gets wrong

Err... all of them? I'm not even kidding. More on this here.

Bellatrix: fortunately there's been progress in the fandom, but for years everyone loved to describe her as an overly sexualized, crazy, shrieking mindless slave, when she's actually quite the opposite. She is sadistic, but not insane, she's passionate but not irrational (she is the only one who knew Snape was a traitor; to me, it's because of a peculiar mix of rationality and intuition that shows her to be actually quite intelligent). Nothing suggests her being promiscuous in the text and I would actually argue the opposite of her (why would she ever lower herself to sleep with someone who she deems her inferior - so basically everyone -, even just to satisfy mere physical desires? This post, to me, is Bella at her core).

Narcissa: this is canon Narcissa, all of you are perfectly entitled to your soft babygirl headcanons, of course, but then again you are perfectly entitled to be wrong <3 [also, shameless self-promo: x]

The blorboification continues for every single member of the Black family and I hate it so much you have no idea:

Andromeda: somehow described as a soft little girl who loved her mean, mean sisters so much and had to run away? Bitch stood up to seven centuries of tradition, and abandoned her sisters and parents, to marry a boy she had fallen in love with maybe two years prior (we know this based on Tonks' age). Good for her, but as I have said previously, both Narcissa and Andromeda (and Sirius, really) strike me as a bit selfish. The one with the romantic attachment to the idea of her family, the child most like Walburga, is Bellatrix.

But this is nothing, NOTHING, compared to what this fandom does to Regulus and Sirius.

Regulus: canonically a Voldemort fanboy, with newspaper clippings of him everywhere, and a blood supremacist. Sirius says it better than anyone: Reggie is soft. But not in the way the fandom believes, nope. He's just a coward who, much like Draco years later, was super excited to be like Bellatrix (Lucius) until he realized what killing really meant, what fighting a war really was, and most importantly because Voldemort touched him personally (Kreacher, whom he loved). Voldemort was probably a little more deranged than he had been at the beginning of the First War, and someone that had inherited the Black pride/haughtiness probably didn't like being branded like cattle and treated like a slave, on top of everything else.

Sirius: fanon Sirius is basically another character. Canon!Sirius is: tall, canonically incredibly handsome, quite masculine (in an explicit and toxic way, especially as a teenager in the fucking 1970s - the skirt-wearing, feminist one-liners spouting version of Sirius is something I just cannot get behind), a dick, a bit classist ((don't come @ me with your "oh, but what about Moony?!" because a) we don't know Remus' wealth when Lyall and Hope were still alive, we only know he can't get a job as an adult because of his condition and b) Remus is Sirius' exception, in the same way Lily is Snape's when he calls her a Mudblood - everyone else is in his eyes)), brave to the point of recklessness, quite cruel, funny, witty, magically talented, loyal to a fault, extremely charismatic and everything else outlined here. For the same reasons, I'll say Remus too.

Don't even get me started on Severus Snape. Other people have spoken on this better than I could ever. At least here on Tumblr, though, it seems to me that things are getting a little better after years of absolutely bizarre takes. Or maybe I've blocked all of the idiots idk.

Dumbledore. More on this here and maybe I'll outline my ideas better in a future post.

Also: I do not accept any characterization of Evan Rosier, Barty Crouch jr, Reggie, and Rabastan Lestrange as anything less than violent blood supremacists. Yes, they can be nuanced and gay (and only for each other might I add), but these people are the KKK (metaphorically, of course, because I hate comparing real-world tragedies to completely fictional ones, but still).

Lucius: a complete dick, but definitely not abusive. The man couldn't raise a hand to Draco if the Dark Lord threatened to kill him over it.

Speaking of which: my darling Lord Voldemort. Not much to say about him really because I know that some people do write him in a very interesting way (and I am open to interpretations of his character even if they are different from how I see him - and I have a very fucking specific vision of him). The problem is that perhaps three (3) of these people write him with Bellatrix and that saddens me.

Now, I mostly read First Wizarding War stuff or Death Eater stuff so I can't really speak to many other characters, especially in Harry's generation, but anything other than cowardly Draco is not a good Draco characterization to me. Ron is hands-down the best one in the Golden Trio and Ron Weasley bashing is pathetic. Hermione has faults but is ultimately a strong, take-no-bullshit girl and I'll take that over basically any and all female YA protagonists. And Harry is sassiness personified, but with a heart of gold, and oh-so-caring. Which is also why I can't read dark!Harry for the life of me. It just makes me giggle.

[iamademigodandwizard]

*Bellatrix, Rodolphus, Andromeda, Rabastan: Narcissa, and Lucius sitting in a room together. (Before andromeda was disowned btw)

Rodolphus: What’s a queen without her king?

Bellatrix: Well, historically better

Rabastan:We’re like Romeo and Juliet ‘Dromeda. What would Juliet be without her Romeo?

Andromeda: Alive

Narcissa and Lucius: ………

[fiendishfyre]

Severus: If you got arrested what would be the charges? Barty Jr: Theft. Regulus: Disturbing the peace. Rabastan: Aggravated assault. Evan: Arson. Pandora: All of the above. In that order, probably.