#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.)

[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

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“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.

[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

[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

[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: ………

[olivers-cocoapuffs]

Torturing the Longbottom's was actually a double date

[tomjamesavery]

The original ones...

Tom Riddle and his oldest Death Eaters, his dorm mates from his time at Hogwarts, some of his most loyal and cruel followers.

All Characters have been created with the prompts and description from @breaniebree ´s Story, ASC. At least for those of whom I had descriptions, for some, I had to improvise as there was no description of their looks.

Starting with the one and only, Tom Marvolo Riddle:

He was created on this prompt:

"A 25 year old evil good looking man called Tom Riddle with a sharp pointed face in dark robes, dark gloomy"

And this picture was also used as a prompt:

Next up is Titus Avery:

For him I had to improvise as I had no description of his looks in ASC, so I took a picture of the original Avery from Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince as a prompt as well as this:

"A 25 year old evil good looking man called Titus Avery with a sharp pointed face with a perfectly coiffed short beard, blue eyes and short blonde hair in dark robes, dark gloomy"

And this picture, the original Avery at the Slug Club flashback(my pfp by the way lol):

Next would be Titus Avery´s wife, Tabitha Nott Avery:

For those of you that know ASC shes Theodore Notts half-Aunt, and Thaddeus Nott´s sister.

For her, the only Info I had, was that her brother had dark brown hair and blue eyes so I went with the same for her:

"A 25 year old evil good looking woman called Tabitha Nott with blue eyes, long dark brown hair in a black wizarding dress, dark gloomy"

Next one would be Abraxas Malfoy, Lucius' father, for him I had more information:

"A 25 year old evil good looking man called Malfoy looking like Sebastian Roche with a sharp pointed face, blue eyes, long white-blond hair pulled back and stubble in dark robes, dark gloomy"

Moving on to his wife, and Lucius´ Mother, Isla Rowle Malfoy, for her I also had a prompt:

"A 25 year old evil good looking woman called Isla Rowle looking like Veronica Lake with blue eyes, long blond hair in a black wizarding dress, dark gloomy"

Next would be Tabitha's Brother, Thaddeus Nott, Theodore Nott´s father, or was he??? ;)

For him I had almost nothing as well only that in his older years he had a large belly, so I again took a prompt picture from the original Nott from the Slug Club with Riddle:

The prompt: "A 25year old evil man called Thaddeus Nott with a perfectly coiffed short beard, evil grin, blue eyes and short dark brown hair in dark robes, dark gloomy"

The prompt picture:

Next I have Wendall Selwyn who was three years younger than the rest but was also part of Riddles Gang.

And for Selwyn I again had no information and had no idea what to use as he isn't in the movies, so I did something cause why not, and used this ancient and unflattering picture of myself as a prompt hahaha, and well, it definitely made me a lot better looking lol

Prompt: "A 25 year old evil looking man called Wendall Selwyn in dark robes, dark gloomy"

Next is Linus Lestrange the father of Rabastan and Rodolphus Lestrange, and Bellatrix´s father-in-law:

Again not much Info, so i used the original Lestrange from Riddles Slug Club Meeting:

Prompt:" A 25 year old evil man called Linus Lestrange with a sharp pointed face with a perfectly coiffed short beard, evil grin, blue eyes and short brown hair in dark robes, dark gloomy"

and the picture:

And last his wife Cassia Shafiq Lestrange, no Info again but she had a middle Eastern-sounding name so I gave her dark hair and dark eyes: The prompt:

"A 25 year old evil good looking woman called Cassia Shafiq with dark eyes, long black hair, in a black wizarding dress, dark gloomy"

As always:

All Credit for the Character Info goes to @breaniebree

Check out her stories ASC and TFTA where these Characters are in:

ASC: https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12924292/1/A-Second-Chance

TFTA: https://www.fanfiction.net/s/14061727/1/The-First-Time-Around

[goodfornothingstar]

Those who know me know that I am not a supporter of wolfstar because I believe that Sirius should have a partner who is strong in character. Even if that person is evil, Sirius will be drawn to them if they had a certain charisma to them. Which we know from canon that Remus Lupin didn't have any. Neither he had any strength in his character. Yes he had moral and was super brave but he lacked a certain spine.

And though I am 100 percent present in camp prongsfoot, I want to know.

Sirius's friendship with James and other marauders pretty much gives you the idea about what he would like in a partner. As we know he respected and cared for James above all. While we see that after school his friendship with Remus was pretty non existent...

And James Potter was strong and charismatic person.. So I feel that should be the criteria for determining his love interest......

[oasis-of-stars-4]

Regulus: *dies* Pandora: Timer starts now! When is he coming back? I say two months! Rabastan: Bullshit. One month. Evan: Nah, half a month. Dorcas, sobbing: WHAT ARE YOU DOING? REGULUS JUST DIED! Barty, scratching his chin in thought: One week.

[emily-the-fae]

Moving on with the aesthetic boards and HCs series:

Andromeda Tonks

represented by Rachel Weisz

Random HCs for Andromeda:

· second child, two years younger than Bellatrix, two years older than Narcissa

· used to play flute, quite excelled at it actually, still plays from time to time up to this day

· fond of potions as most Slytherins but her preferred subjects remained Herbology and Astronomy

· was never a fan of quidditch, obviously received necessary broom skills, but never flew unless absolutely necessary

· despised Cygnus for pretty much the entirety of her life, hid it very poorly and got frequently punished for lack of respect

· tolerable relationship with Druella, but truth to be told Bellatrix was the mother figure of her entire childhood

· loved Narcissa dearly, but was truly and insanely close with Bellatrix - when Bellatrix was old enough to get a room separate from her sisters, it ended up being Narcissa's - Meda and Bella kept a common bedroom until very late in their teens

· most of Andromeda's music and literature taste was inspired by her older sister

· met Ted Tonks for the first time on her second year of Hogwarts, he was two years older, but they almost instantly became friends

· started dating Ted on her fourth year at Hogwarts. she used to share everything exciting with Bellatrix. the day Ted asked her out was the day she started withholding news from her sister

· her family never knew about their relationship - well, Narcissa did to be fair, but she kept that knowledge to herself

· she was never seriously planning to elope with Ted, but one night soon after her 18th birthday she overheard her parents talking about her planned engagement to Rodolphus Lestrange - expressed her disagreement to Bellatrix, expecting support

· when Bellatrix said that their parents were being reasonable, Andromeda did not disagree. but the next night she ended up on Ted's doorstep with one suitcase and no way back

· very excited about muggle cars, learned to drive and got a licence when she lived with Ted's parents shortly after she eloped

· regrets loss of contact with her sisters, but would only admit it in a drunken late night painfully sincere kitchen conversation with her husband

· Nymphadora's name was supposed to be Bellatrix all along, then Andromeda found out about her sister being a Death Eater... the name choice suddenly changed

· loves muggle gadgets and devices, especially television, big fan of science fiction and fantasy movies

Other posts from the series:

Bellatrix Lestrange - Narcissa Malfoy - Rodolphus Lestrange - Rabastan Lestrange

[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.