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poetryandbloods-blog · 8 months ago

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Corvus Lestrange (1926 - 1975)

Elizabeth Burke (1927 - 1947)

Francine Carrow (1940 - 1981)

Tiberius Lestrange (1981 - )

Corvus was one of the original Death Eaters, the first person alongside Tiberius Nott to meet Tom Riddle on the Hogwarts express, he was responsible for helping to integrate him into the world of Slytherin.

Corvus was the fifth son in a succession of girls, his mother was a Malfoy by birth and for many years had been the Malfoy heir presumptive until the birth of his uncle Hyperion. Her mother would have two other daughters after Corvus and would become known as the Grandmother of Wizarding Britain, thanks to her daughters' successful marriages.

He married Elizabeth Burke, with whom he would have a son Rodolphus, Elizabeth became increasingly weaker after the birth of her son and died a few years later. He would marry again, to Francine Carrow with whom he would have his second son Rabastan.

Having grown up in a house full of women he was quite indolent with his wives, leaving them free to do whatever they wanted.

Corvus would die in a skirmish in 1975, his sons would go to Azkaban a few years later.

Rabastan married a cousin with whom he had a son, she fled to France after the fall of the Dark Lord, their son Tiberius would study at Beauxbatons.

After the Battle of Hogwarts Rabastan fled to France, he sent himself with his son for the first time in years. The two shared a lunch where he bypassed the family's secrets, he fled soon after. The Aurors wouldn't find him and his son would never reveal the conversation they had.

** To me, Lestrange Family have mahogany hair and dark blue eyes.

Parents:

Desdemona Ivory Malfoy – Lestrange (1890 – 1947)

Tiberius Manon Lestrange (1880 – 1940)

Sisters:

Créssida Perdita Lestrange – Selwyn (1919 – 1996)

Athenodora Giselle Lestrange – Gamp (1921 - )

Sulpicia Annie Lestrange – Travers (1923 – 2023)

Manon Chloé Lestrange - Dolohov (1924 - 1980)

Estelle Lucille Lestrange – Malfoy (1930 - 1957)

Augusta Esther Lestrange – Longbottom (1935 -)

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poetryandbloods-blog · 8 months ago

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My headcanons about the Lestrange brothers, based on this post.

I like Rodolphus older than Belatrix and I tend to imagine him older than Rebastan as well, his brother could be a late child or even a son from a second marriage of Mr. Lestrange (who I call Corvus in my headcanons) I imagine also Rabastan as a softer/cowardly vein, someone who like Regulus was hooked by this ideology but didn't have the stomach to do what Voldemort demanded.

I imagine that Lestrange Sr., Abraxas, Rosier Sr. and Nott Sr. were Voldemort's original companions who joined him in the 70s and acted as generals/consultants, more in the political part than in the fighting, leaving the fighting to his sons, younger and determined to do whatever was necessary for the ideology, three of them died in the first war and only Nott Sr. survived.

I like the idea of Rodolphus trying to protect his brother. As House Lestrange doesn't seem to have gone extinct like House Black I like to imagine that they had a younger brother perhaps still a child at the time of Voldemort's fall who took over the family perhaps someone close to Felix Rosier's age and like Felix kept- away from this ideology that could be the ruin of the family name. Another possibility is that Rabastan was married and had a young child or a pregnant wife. I imagine his wife's expression when she sees him free from Azkaban, returning home half-crazed from being imprisoned for so long, while facing the genuine fear of seeing his son drawn into the war. But unlike Narcissa she wasn't living a perfect pureblood marriage between the two wars, perhaps she had fled to her family in France shortly after her husband was arrested and never thought of returning.

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 to 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 magics; 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.

#harry potter #hp #canon vs headcanon #rabastan lestrange #rodolphus lestrange #family Lestrange

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