#bellatrix lestrange and walburga black

[mrstellmeafuckingsecret]

wallytrix……

OKAY so i was gonna answer this last night but then it was 2am and i was studying and then school and then i took a nap but like whatevr I LOVE U oka so

tw brief mention of sh, dubcon and france. also like incest 🙀

ill make another post about this but since cygnus was only thirteen when bellatrix was born, i hc walburga raised her and adored her. andromeda came two years later and she raised her for a bit too, but she's only had the capacity to love one person at a time. bellatrix is four/fiveish when cygnus and druella graduate and she moves to france with them (narcissa's born after they've moved), but walburga checks in biweekly and bellatrix already calls her mum ,, and then when she's seven-ish, walburga's visits become less and less often till because she's pregnant, and after sirius is born she never visits except for occasions. (she coddles bellatrix a little more, but she has a new center of attention and it's awful.)

oh and for like the first eight-ish years of bellatrix's life she'd been in this tug of war between walburga and her parents, and then walburga just suddenly let go after raising bellatrix &her parents aren't as sweet as walburga and walburga always spoils bellatrix when she's there simply because she wants bellatrix to be fussy and bring her up when walburga's not there but like for bellatrix she misses her 24/7 and she's never been normal about her obsessions, ever. !! *

anyway so bellatrix's crush/obsession starts young, probably around that age, but she doesn't know it's that yet. she knows when she comes back after her first year at hogwarts (cygnus and druella moved to england) and she catches walburga changing and then she,,, keeps stalking her. and peaks in her shower. and she sticks to walburga every time sirius isn't in the room (rare) and goes back to sit in her lap and wants her to kiss her everywhere like she did when she was a baby but like she doesnt,,, "bella you're too old to be sitting in my lap" "bellatrix you're being childish" "bella you're not a baby anymore" , and it hurts but also like she kinda saw this coming. so she just tries to be very grown up and that also doesn't work. but yk what does work !? whenevr cygnus is dicky she goes to walburga and she 1. sets him in his place 2. comforts her and treats her gently so like fourteen yo bellatrix is slitting her wrists hoping walburga would kiss them better. and then she cuts other parts but walburga won't kiss them better ☹️

also little selfcest (?) moment when bella's like thirteen she's starting to realize how much she looks like walburga so she's constantly jerking off in front of the mirror 😟

. * even when bellatrix is older and walburga's let go, druella wants walburga to know bellatrix isnt hers and makes sure bellatrix is showing off every visit ("what book are you reading again? the OWL level one?" "i think you're mixing your japanese with mandarin, sweetheart, don't you know walburga doesn't speak japanese?") so druella knows what she lost and it's a way to get walburga's attention for bellatrix but walburga never pays any mind and bellatrix is strugglinggg.

anyway. sirius runs away and the only person happier than regulus is bellatrix . walburga's not exactly right after that, but she does prize bellatrix around like her own daughter and bellatrix can smell her underwear can sleep in her bed and shit and ermm walburga has a drinking problem and bellatrix takes advantage of that ,. it's very "ill make you feel so good" "i love you so much" kind of dubcon where she doesn't want to fully acknowledge what she's doing is wrong. anyway so they fuck a couple times &walburga is usually under the influence of something but she's. very dependent on bellatrix. and then regulus dies and she's completely sucked into her, then orion does and she's lonely and scared and needs bellatrix - but bellatrix's found a new obession (voldick!!!)

[camisadoes]

i can’t stop thinking about an au where the black family is famous and they have a reality tv show like keeping up with the kardashians and i think im gonna start drawing a comic of this immediately

[regulusmoonbeam]

the day people hear me out abt the fact that a character can be both horrible and human is the day i die peacefully

"walburga-"

"SHES ABUSIVE!! HOW COULD YOU HUMANIZE HER!! LETS NOT FEEL BAD FOR THE ABUSER"

OH MY GODDD

I AM AWARE SHES HORRIBLE BUT SHE WASNT ALWAYS LIKE THAT

ITS LIKE WHEB PPL SEPARATE YOUNG PETER AND ADULT PETER

i swear yall just love refusing to see female characters as multi dimensional bc bitches will dickride voldemort b4 listening abt bellatrix

[leonardomagne]

The Princess of House Black and her Dark Lord 💚🖤❤️‍🔥💗 By @Adelika

[altinaii]

the person is like, "I'm mentally balanced," and then they tell me about their favorite headcannons about the Black family

[fugamalefica]

Propaganda I'm not falling for:

Voldemort not having sex with Bellatrix, being in a relationship with her, and being more attached to her than he's ever been to anyone.

The Black Sisters being abused.

Bellatrix being overly selfless towards her sisters. Yes, she loves them but she also does not mind hurting them and that includes Narcissa.

Belladolphus being a sexless/loveless/cold/lavender marriage, Rodolphus being abusive, or Bellatrix hating Rodolphus.

Katie McGrath or Eva Green as Bellatrix! Please no!

Bellatrix not being the most magically powerful woman in the Wizarding World as well as incredibly smart and/or Bellatrix being jealous of Snape in Spinner's End instead of seeing through his lies.

Bellatrix and Voldemort not being incredibly rich, complex, and well written characters.

Bellatrix having straight hair, grey eyes, hooded eyes, a shaved vulva, small breasts, or being any height other than 1.75 m/5'9".

Bellatrix being cold, aloof, or asexual. Just read the books, people!!! Can't believe I even have to say this.

Voldemort ever truly truly liking Snape, trusting him, or Snape being his favourite. Was he the most useful in the second war? Yes, but that does not make him the favourite nor does it mean Voldemort truly liked him.

Voldemort caring about Nagini on a personal level/beyond her usefulness. Come on, lol. He barely reacts when she dies and is only shown using her for pragmatic reasons. I'd never treat my baby kitty the way he treated that poor snake.

Voldemort hating his mother.

Voldemort not hating Muggles and Mudbloods and not truly believing in the importance of blood purity.

Narcissa being the most beautiful Black Sister because she's a blue-eyed blonde (the colourism!) when canonically a bad expression was enough to ruin her nice looks but Azkaban wasn't enough to ruin Bella's great good looks hahahaha.

Walburga physically abusing her sons.

Lucius being obsessed with Narcissa. It was clearly the other way round.

Draco liking Narcissa more than Lucius.

Harry being buff or any taller than 1.72 m/5'8".

Tall James Potter.

Short Sirius Black.

The Marauders being a healthy, loving friend group.

Wolfstar.

[konstantynowitz]

Riddle era headcanons

Walburga, like her son Sirius, was very rebellious in her youth. Wally’s parents had difficulty suppressing her recalcitrant tendencies and it only got worse once she got to Hogwarts. 100% bullied Muggleborns, probably even tried to hex Tom maybe once or twice before he earned his reputation.

Orion Black and Abraxas Malfoy were the first of Tom Riddle’s peers that he befriended during his first year at Hogwarts. In spite of this, Malfoy was the only one out of the two who joined the Knights of Walpurgis.

There is no doubt in my mind that would lead me to believe that Orion was not a pure-blood supremacist, but I don’t think he was much of an extremist when it came to blood purity. It definitely comes down to how far you are willing to go in order to preserve your own ideals and for Orion that only went as far as to marry your own cousin.

Alphard Black was a metamorphmagus like his grandniece Nymphadora Tonks. Being a metamorphmagi was not widely accepted back in the ‘30s and ‘40s, especially for witches and wizards born into influential pure-blood families so I don’t think Alphard’s parents approved of his abilities and probably implored him not to use them in public.

Cygnus and Druella were a love match which was a rare occurrence for pure-blood marriages at the time.

Tom Riddle’s classmate Rosier Sr. was the father of Evan and Felix Rosier. Rosier Sr. is also the brother of Druella Rosier, which therefore makes him the uncle of her three daughters Bellatrix, Andromeda and Narcissa.

Druella inherited the lighter Rosier traits such as blond hair and blue eyes from her father, while her brother Rosier Sr. got the gene for more darker features from his family like his aunt Vinda Rosier.

Birth order of the Black siblings: Walburga (b. 1925), Alphard (b. 1927) and Cygnus (b. 1929). Canonically, Cygnus was born somewhere around 1938 which would’ve made him thirteen by the time Bellatrix (b. 1951) was born. Most fans have considered this a mathematical error made by J.K. Rowling and so I’m going to put his date of birth around the late 1920s.

Lucretia Black was not a pure-blood supremacist like her family, making her much like her cousin Alphard in that regard. She would later become an ally to the Order of the Phoenix when Voldemort rose into power.

Rodolphus Lestrange is said to have the gift of foresight, which I headcanon he gets from his father Lestrange Sr. Ironically, the raven is the family emblem of the Lestrange family, and in Greek mythology, a raven is the sacred bird of Apollo, God of foresight.

Lestrange Sr. married Tasoula Shafiq, a pure-blood witch from the Shafiq family who are listed in the Sacred Twenty-Eight. The Shafiq family are of Middle Eastern origin which is where I assume Rabastan Lestrange got his name from; the name Rabastan is Arabic for ‘Head of the Serpent’.

Euphemia Potter and Walburga Black were actually very close friends during their time at Hogwarts. The two grew apart especially once they graduated and Euphemia went on to marry Fleamont. Walburga didn’t approve of the match, because even if the Potters were a respectable pure-blood family they were not supremacists.

Orion and Walburga saw their marriage as more of an obligation than a partnership. It was a practical match which neither Orion or Wally were hesitant to accept. The two of them believed that it was their duty to keep their bloodline pure and if that meant marrying each other then so be it.

Due to the House of Black’s constant inbreeding, Orion was born with hemophilia.

[lord-save-me]

Forever mourning the complexities of female characters early marauders fandom (like ATYDs) didnt give to women like Bellatrix or Walburga so now we have cartoon wicked witches with no depth

[prongsinrevolt]

hihi!! im not much of a marauders fan but my friend had a crazy hc so i wanted someones whos more in the fandoms opinion!!

basically, walburga had an affair and got pregnant w sirius, but the guy she had an affair with wasnt pureblood. and that could be another reason that his family doesnt want to asscouate with him. (FEEL FREE TO ROAST THIS HC I HAVENT BEEN IN THIS SPACE IN AGES HAHA)

OKAY, fair, fair- since when have marauders fandom ever cared about canon? So let’s dive into this absolute fever dream of a headcanon because honestly? it’s giving messy, it’s giving drama and it’s giving “ BLACK FAMILY UNHINGED”

Picture this: Walburga Black, queen of “I hate everything fun,” goes and has a spicy little affair with a non-pureblood. Like, the AUDACITY. She’s out here screaming about bloodlines and family honor, but secretly she’s breaking her own rules. Then BOOM— sirius is born out of forbidden love affair. That explains EVERYTHING. It’s not just personality; it’s in his BLOOD. His “I don’t care about the rules” energy? His leather jacket rebellion? It’s genetic, babes.

And the tea? Imagine if everyone in the family knew but just didn’t say anything. Like, Regulus side-eyes Sirius at family dinners, Kreacher is making shady little comments, and the Black family tree is just screaming in protest. The DRAMA.

I can totally see Walburga looking at Sirius and being like, “Ugh, you’re just like HIM,” while Regulus is sitting there in the corner, living his best “golden child” life, trying not to laugh because he knows all the family tea. And imagine Sirius finding out later—he’d be insufferable. Every time someone asked why he’s so dramatic, he’d be like, “Well, I am the product of a scandal, darling.” James would lose his mind. 10/10 would read this fanfic. this has “limited series with 100% Rotten Tomatoes rating” energy.

also so sorry for responding so late! i didn’t see it!

[knights-0f-walpurgis]

Cygnus and Druella treated each other as equals throughout their marriage. The two co-parented their daughters with a sense of duty to the children themselves, rather than to the family they were expected to dedicate their lives to.

Walburga made sure that she was the dominant one within the union that shackled her to Orion. Her husband didn’t have much say in anything regarding their children, nor the marriage that they were both trapped in. She was in charge, which left Orion with nothing else to do other than just stand and watch as his wife tore their family apart with her bear hands.

[venturelock]

"They turn you into a monster, then they call you one" (arrested development s1e7)

Is one of the most House of Black coded quotes in my opinion.

[viviandarkbloombartylusversion]

I know for a fact the dark families of the Sacred 28 were doing whatever the fuck the wizard equivalent of clean cut rich white people cocaine is. I know damn well at galas and balls or whatever, they're doing 6 inch lines of that shit

[passinhosdetartaruga]

Maybe there was never a Black Family curse. Maybe that house was just covered with lead paint.

[stonnedparrott]

The marauders fandom is crazy because you can call child abuse A+ parenting and everyone accepts it as a valid tag

[hollowed-theory-hall]

Was the Noble and Most Ancient House of Black actually any special, and were they seen as some kind of royalty to outsiders?

Because in every (or most) fanfic I’ve read with them, they are always depicted as being way above anyone and everyone else, even their own partners. The only ones good for them, or the only ones who understand them, are the ones with black blood running through their veins. As if they are some sort of gods that no one, but others with their blood, can touch. And everyone loves (and/or hates) them and wants to be a part of their family because they are so powerful and attractive, but watch out because they are prone to being crazy.

Which is actually another thing I wanted to point out and ask:

Did the Black family actually have some kind of curse of madness?

Hi 👋

Now, like many, I'm not immune to being completely fascinated by the Most Ancient and Noble House of Black, so I was pretty stoked about this ask.

For the first part, are the Blacks actually as important as they make themselves (or fandom makes them to be)?

The short answer is not really, but they are important.

Now, the long answer:

I mentioned here how I believe the Wizengamot functions like a council of lords (which is what the Witengamot is named after in our real world), as such, families like the Blacks, the Longbottoms, and even the Potters likely do have a "noble title" (for lack of a better term) that allows them a seat there.

That being said, I don't think the Blacks are above any of the other families there, not really, but they think they are. The Blacks are an old wizarding family, they can probably trace their family tree back to the founders' era and perhaps even before, and it's important to them. They take pride in this legacy of one of the oldest pure-blood families in Britain. The Malfoys, for example, are probably richer than the modern Blacks, but they don't have the Wizengamot title and they came from France, they're not British Pure-Bloods, not originally, and I think the Blacks as a whole would look down on that. But other Wizengamot families that have just as much British history should be their equals then, and they are unless you ask a Black. They are a very proud family, and they might think they're above everyone, but they're the only ones thinking it.

I also personally headcanon that they have more houses aside from Grimmauld Place as well. I mean, back in the Regency and Victorian era it was common for richer aristocrats to have a manor away from London and then a townhouse/manor in London for the social season. So, I kinda assumed that's what Grimmauld Place initially was. So it isn't the family manor the way Malfoy Manor is and there is a Black Manor somewhere in the countryside.

For the second question:

No, I don't think the Black Madness is real.

Let's define "madness". Since it isn't really a medical term, I'd go with the dictionary on this one:

So, we'll treat it as repeated foolish, frenzied, or uncontrolled behavior that cannot be explained by other factors.

We don't meet many Blacks, and most of the ones we do are far from mad (I'll get to Bellatrix and Walburga).

Both Narcissa and Andromeda are completely sound of mind. Sure, they might have made mistakes, or rash decisions on occasion, but that's being human. They both care deeply for their families and act in their best interest. And they are intelligent, logical, controlled, and consistent in their behavior. So, two Black sisters are not insane.

What about the Black brothers, Sirius and Regulus?

Well, neither of them ever read as mad to me. Regulus was obsessed with Voldemort until he realized what he got himself into and his actions weren't ones of a madman, a desperate one, maybe, but not mad. He was smart enough to figure out about Voldmort's Horcruxes and smart enough to do something about it without Voldemort knowing.

Sirius isn't at the best of mental state when we see him considering it's after 12 years in hell on earth. But he is logical, sane, and sound, especially during Goblet of Fire in which he uncovers the plot with Barty Crouch Jr perfectly, just getting the wrong Death Eater. He comes to correct conclusions about people and is clearly intelligent:

“I don’t know,” said Sirius slowly, “I just don’t know . . . Karkaroff doesn’t strike me as the type who’d go back to Voldemort unless he knew Voldemort was powerful enough to protect him. But whoever put your name in that goblet did it for a reason, and I can’t help thinking the tournament would be a very good way to attack you and make it look like an accident.”

(GoF, page 334)

Yes, his mental state deteroits in OOTP when he's back at Grimmuald Place, but that's Sirius dealing with his grief, trauma, his sense of helplessness, and complicated feelings about his family. He never was mad, even then, just in a really shitty situation.

And yes, he was cruel as a teenager, but as I keep saying later in the post, cruelty does not equal madness.

So, what about Bellatrix, the fandom's poster child for the Black Madness?

I don't think she's insane either, well, at least she wasn't until Azkaban. In her trial, she is quiet throughout the proceedings, looking board, even, until the verdict is given:

The dementors were gliding back into the room. The boys’ three companions rose quietly from their seats; the woman with the heavy-lidded eyes looked up at Crouch and called, “The Dark Lord will rise again, Crouch! Throw us into Azkaban; we will wait! He will rise again and will come for us, he will reward us beyond any of his other supporters! We alone were faithful! We alone tried to find him!”

(GoF, 595-596)

She is fanatical, sure, but there's no baby talk like we see in OOTP, she is cold and clearly understands the situation, she isn't in a frenzy but in control. She just knows about at least one Horcrux so she truly believes what she is saying and from her point of view, it makes sense she believes that. I won't say she is right to torture and murder Voldemort, no, she is cruel and sadistic, always was. But you can be cruel and sadistic without being mad.

The baby voice she was useing when talking to Harry in OOTP was a taunt as well, not how she usually speaks:

“Never used an Unforgivable Curse before, have you, boy?” she yelled. She had abandoned her baby voice now.

(OotP, 810)

The moment he cast an unforgivable and she started treating him seriously she dropped the baby voice.

She is cruel and fanatical, but not insane. She rightfully suspects Snape throughout HBP and DH, she is aware of her surroundings enough to see Snape's loyalty is odd when many others don't. She is intelligent and logical. She can keep herself in check when she wants to, she's, just, obsessive, and willfully blind to anything to do with Voldemort because she practically worships him.

But, she isn't mad in the sense the Black Madness seems to imply. Also, I think how we see her, post-Azkaban is worse than how she was before. I think we met a less stable, crueler version of Bellatrix, not that she wasn't cruel before, but she was more stable I think. I mean, she did spend about 14 years in Azkaban, and Fudge said Sirius looked too sane to him after a decade in the place. The Wizarding World expects the prisoners in Azkaban to lose it. So, is it really a wonder Bellatrix was affected by her time there?

And what about Walburga who screeched about blood-traitors and mudbloods constantly? Well, I think, like Bellatrix, we're seeing the worst of her.

I mean, Walburga had her portrait painted after:

Her eldest and favored son ran away from home

Her second obedient son joined the Dark Lord and then disappeared. She likely believed he died a painful torturous death of a traitor considering that's what everyone thought.

Her husband died soon after, leaving her alone with Kreacher in a gloomy home that hasn't felt like a home to any of them since the war started brewing in the 1970s. Since Sirius left.

So, I think the version we see of her, is one who was grieving. She was lonely, bitter, and in mourning. And that is the state of mind the portrait captured. I think magical portraits capture the person as they are when they sit down to have the portrait taken, so it captures all of Walburga's pain, and Walburga, proud daughter of the house of Black spits acid instead of letting her pain get to her, instead of allowing herself to feel the guilt that is weighing her down.

Walburga was never been the picture of a good mother, or of stability, but I mentioned here and other times that I don't believe Walburga was physically abusive at any point, but she always had high expectations for her sons, especially Sirius. She probably had control, and she wasn't always as frenzied as we see her, we just see a version of her broken by life, and when she broke, she got so much worse.

So, I don't think there is a curse of Black madness, not really. It's just the Black family had shit luck in the Wizarding Wars, and to a degree, it was their own doing — their pure-blood mania that sent their kids away.

As for other members, well, we know Alphard was sane enough to give Sirius money when he ran away. We know Araminta wanted to legalize muggle-hunting and Elladora started the tradition of hanging house elves' heads on the walls. The thing is, you don't need to be mad to be cruel, you can be perfectly calm, collected, and intelligent and still do unimaginable horrors. In the case of Araminta and Elladora, they don't consider muggles and house elves as human, as equal to them. therefore their pain and suffering aren't cruel in their eyes, it's like killing a deer and mounting its head on the wall, it's an animal, and it's fine. I don't think they were even necessarily cruel towards other wizards, just towards those they considered lesser, who they thought of as animals. They weren't good people, but that doesn't make them mad.

I think there is something to be said about evil not always equaling insanity and that people who'd be medically considered completely sane can do a lot of evil. I think calling every evil character insane or mad cheapens these terms and has always felt to me like a cop-out. Insane is what you call someone you want to Other, to forget that the evil they committed was done by a person, it's a way to wave their behavior away and say: "Well, I can't understand why they did that, they're insane," and this kind of excuse for characters' behavior always left a bad taste in my mouth. Evil can be done by perfectly sane humans, and I think that angle of analysis, is much more interesting because then you force yourself to understand. You force yourself to face the humanity in a character in a way calling them mad won't allow you to. Real evil is hardly ever so simple as "madness" makes it out to be.

(As a side note, I think it's possible quite a few of the Blacks have mental health issues, but that's very different than how terms like madness and insanity are thrown around and portrayed)

[metalomagnetic]

It’s Battle of the Blacks, they’re all alive, healthy, and in their magical prime. Who comes out on top?

Oh, boy!

Let's assume it's an organised battle, with rounds and stuff, and not just straight up chaos.

If it's straight up chaos, Bella wins.

But if organised, let's see:

First round:

Melania refuses to compete, she can't bear to cause harm to any family member.

Irma vs Hesper- they both get disqualified because they are nuts and take each other out anyway.

Andromeda vs Narcissa. Narcissa wins.

Bellatrix vs Walburga. Bellatrix wins.

Druella vs Cygnus- Druella wins, because she pulls out some unheard of crazy ritual that brings the whole house on their heads. It's a big 'oopsie moment' but she's left standing in the ring, so there it is.

Old Sirius vs Arcturus. Old Sirius wins. (RIP Arcturus, his dad destroys him)

Orion vs Pollux. Orion wins.

Sirius vs Regulus. Sirius wins.

Alphard has no one to match with, and he's drunk anyway, and distracted by a handsome audience member. Disqualified.

Second round (the unfair matches. Tessuth was tired when she arranged them):

Bellatrix vs Druella. Bella wins.

Narcissa vs old Sirius. Yikes!

Orion vs Sirius. Sirius wins (in part because he genuinely earned it, in part because Orion can't bring himself to hurt his son too much).

Final round:

Old Sirius vs Bella. Old Sirius wins, though he's impressed by the fight Bella put up! He always liked her the best (that is to say, he only bothered to get to know her from all the sisters).

Old Sirius vs Sirius. They fight in the ring, and in the skies. It's a tough one.

Old Sirius is crowned winner. He's handed the medal.

But because Sirius and Bella are extremely sore losers, they team up and fuck him up.

They rip the medal in two, and each wear one side around their necks; they're soulmates anyway, so they can also be medal-mates.

But perhaps the true winner is Regulus, because he predicted every single match outcome and placed bets on who will win. He predicted the final winner from the get go, but he also predicted the cheating shenanigans Bella and Sirius got into at the end. He cleans everyone of gold, and buys himself a manor far, far away where he can go have a drink in peace once in a while.