#lestrange family

[konstantynowitz]

Thinking random thoughts…

I don’t know about anyone else, but to me he is so Rodolphus Lestrange coded 😍

[capriddle]

In the Lestranges trial from Goblet of Fire, which man do you believe was Rodolphus Lestrange, and why? Was he the “thickset man who stared blankly up at Crouch” or the “thinner, more nervous-looking man whose eyes were darting around the crowd”?

Would love to know your opinion!

I have always thought that Rodolphus was the first man, first of all because I imagine him more muscular than Rabastan and then because I believe he was the more courageous and contemptuous of the two, therefore the one who tries not to show fear or agitation. Let's say I think he had some traits in common with Bellatrix in terms of character and so he did his best to appear at least dignified.

[viviandarkbloombartylusversion]

And what if I wrote into my Sacred 28 doc that Pandora Lestrange is actually the illegitimate child of Evan Rosier's father cause her mother cheated on Rodolphus and Rabastan's father??

[yoursdeadlynightshade]

Oh, darling. I'm everyone's type.

- Bellatrix Black Lestrange.

[marta-krasina]

И что только эти красотки нашли в этой морде?

Им еще в школе надо было послать Реддла и жить счастливо вдвоем, без всякого завоевания всего мира. Вдвоем заниматься зельями и чарами, пить вино по вечерам и смотреть французские фильмы, открыть свой ресторан или лавку, путешествовать и обсуждать книги. Варить кофе по утрам и устраивать долгие разговоры за завтраком. Ходить по букинистическим магазинам, находить редкие фолианты, бесконечно спорить о философии и значении статуса крови. Язвить и практиковаться в сарказме, а по ночам признаваться в волнующих душу вещах (и иногда скучать по Тому). ��кспериментировать с редкими ингредиентами в зельях, изучать тайные чары и проводить запрещенные ритуалы. Кататься на лодке по тихому озеру и посещать званые вечера старых приятелей; ходить по музеям и бродить по старым темным лесам; бывать на вечеринках в Гоетии и весело проводить время; любить — вместе или по отдельности. Адара могла бы играть на фортепиано, а Шарли — сочинять стихи. В этом у них есть талант!

Шарли и Адара

Да, в реальности близкими подругами они никогда не были, но и врагами их тоже не назвать.

[harbinger-0f-spring]

Here is a continuation of the family tree collaboration project with @konstantynowitz. Originally, my main focus was on the Rosier family, but before we get into that side of the tree, I'm going to introduce you to earlier generations of the Volants. I have been connected to the French branch of the Lestrange family through a Volant ancestor, and this might be a long shot, but just bear with me. Benouét Volant was born in 1794 as the nephew of Jodelle Lestrange (née Volant) who married Floxel Lestrange. In the year 1782, Jodelle had one daughter with her husband: Quintilla Lestrange, the mother of Nozéa Lestrange. Benouét was taken in by his aunt and uncle as a child when his parents died of a dragon pox outbreak. He was raised by Jodelle and Floxel, growing up alongside Quintilla as if she were his elder sister. Benouét later named his son Floxel Volant (I) in honor of his uncle.

For the time being, I do not have a name for Benouét's spouse, but I suspect that I'll make her a close relative of Floxel maybe through his mother Luminosa. Floxel Volant's mother may be a descendant from the Trouche family as I'm sure Benouét must've interacted with his uncle's extended family growing up, perhaps developing a close relationship with a potential bride through the Trouches.

I believe that Jodelle would have arranged for Benouét to marry a relative of her husband so that he could stay closely connected with the family. Floxel and Jodelle cared for Benouét as if he were their own child, so I think they thought that marrying him off to a Trouche was almost like an affectionate way of officially recognizing their nephew as an adoptive son of sorts.

Floxel Volant (I) was born in 1826 to Benouét Volant and his wife, his father was thirty-two at the time of his birth. Floxel remained a bachelor for the majority of his adulthood, enjoying the luxuries and privileges of his family's wealth. He was quite the lady-killer in his youth, so if he did have any children they'd be unacknowledged bastards that he never involved himself with, even if he was aware of their existence. Within the year 1870, at the age of forty-four, an unmarried Floxel impregnated his young mistress at the time, but the only difference between his current mistress and his mistresses of the past was that she also came from an influential French pure-blood family. Because of this, Floxel would be forced to marry his mistress who would later give birth to their only son Étienne Volant.

Something that needs to be acknowledged: I cannot take credit for this next half of the tree, as I had the help of @lazyreinelle when coming up with the backgrounds and names of the characters about to be mentioned. Of course, I've made a few little tweaks of my own when it comes to birth dates and certain aspects of their backstories, but really it is all thanks to the creative mind of @lazyreinelle that I was able to fill in the blanks of the tree.

Étienne Volant was born in 1870 and married Clotilde de Trefle-Picques, a seemingly mild-mannered girl, yet popular because of her family. She is betrothed off to Étienne during her penultimate year at Beauxbatons. Despite being ten years her senior, Étienne often acted like a man-child and was incredibly irresponsible. So, when it came to raising children, he would mostly never be around, goofing around in bars or sleeping with any veela he met. Clotilde had to raise her children: an elder daughter Eglantine (b. 1904), and two younger twin sons Floxel (II) and Claude (b. 1906), all by herself naturally instilling them with rather harsh views of blood purity.

In spite of his absence, Étienne was closest to his daughter Eglantine, who inherited his free-spirit, although it was much more reigned in than her father's was. Even so, she was frequently challenging authority and diving headfirst into escapades that left her mother exasperated. Clotilde always cursed her husband for passing on such a wild spirit to Eglantine, wishing instead that their daughter possessed a more measured temperament that would ease her worries and keep her out of trouble. Eglantine did not want to follow the expected societal norms for young witches of the time, nor did she wish to conform to the wishes and expectations of a future spouse, believing that her personal freedoms should be valued if she were to find herself married one day. Eglantine Volant harbored a fondness for her father, as he was the only one who could ever understand her. He never saw her as being unreasonable when voicing her standards for a hypothetical husband. Clotilde always believed that her daughter was being ridiculous when forming these ideas of a marriage of compromise, dismissing them as fanciful daydreams. Whenever Étienne was around he'd spoil his little daughter with small gifts and let her skip piano lessons or her early homeschooling to spend time "adventuring" with him on the estate's property. She grew up knowing that her father was not a dependable man, but that did not make him a bad parent to his children, at least during the times he occasionally visited them.

The Volants were deeply in debt because of Étienne's tendencies to gamble away a lot of his inheritance at the bars he frequented at. Clotilde, who came from a family who specialized in concealment charms, was able to hide the decline in the Volant's wealth by casting mirages that could make a simple lump of coal appear to be a bar of gold or some type of jewel. These charms especially helped in regard to paying off Étienne's debts, often conning the people he owed money to with his wife's illusions. Although, after a while, the charm of their fabricated wealth began to wear off and those who Étienne paid his debts to with these charmed objects would find out that they were tricked once the enchantments wore off.

As a result, one night when Étienne was drunk at a bar, he was confronted by one of the men he conned. Étienne was challenged in a magical duel by the man, but ultimately lost and was killed. This is why Clotilde was overjoyed when Eglantine got a proposal from the Rosier family, especially Laurent Rosier. The Rosiers, having already established themselves long back in France, were practically akin to wizarding nobility, matching the Blacks. Eglantine's marriage ensured that the Volants would not go bankrupt and reinstated stability within the family.

Featured at the top, is a tree which connects the Rosier family to the French branch of the Lestrange family. As I mentioned in my first post for the tree, Laurent Rosier is the great-great-nephew of Minette Rosier, making him third cousins with Leta Lestrange and her younger half-brother Corvus V. In addition to this, Laurent's father was first cousins with Fèlicule Lestrange (née Rosier), also known as F. Lestrange, the grandmother of Radolphus Lestrange II.

To give you guys a little bit more background of Clotilde Volant (née de Trefle-Picques), she was born to Adélard Duc de Trefle-Picques, a descendant of Vincent Duc de Trefle-Picques, a French nobleman and wizard active around the time of the French Revolution. Her mother was originally introduced as Faustine Escoffier-Floquet, but I changed my mind and renamed her as Touènette de Trefle-Picques (née Beaufort). There is not much I have to tell you about them right now, but soon I will post another update on this tree and hopefully by that time I'll have a little more to share on them. As for their grandsons, Eglantine's younger brothers that were created by @lazyreinelle: Floxel II and Claude Volant, I do have a bit more to share about them.

Floxel Volant II married Pascaline Volant (née Perrott), a classmate of his elder sister during her years at Beauxbatons. Floxel had a few children with Pascaline, namely their daughter Ghislaine Volant. There are a few more which I will be sharing in the near future, but right now Ghislaine is the only one who will be mentioned at the moment since the other children have more expanded and complex trees in regard to their future descendants.

Before Floxel's marriage to Pascaline, Clotilde started to be a lot more harsh with him, scrutinizing every move of his, and forcibly making him meet potential brides for him yet not allowing him to choose. The Volant heir longed to be free like his twin, Claude without any worry in the world, without someone constantly breathing down your neck. Being the older twin by five minutes was perhaps the only thing Floxel could uphold Claude over. The younger had all the other luxuries to bed, flirt with any one he liked, regardless of blood-status. As the second son, Claude was the spare and therefore didn't have as much responsibility to the family. Claude could often cross the line, becoming even worse than his father Étienne.

Claude Volant was notorious for philandering about, oftentimes bedding attractive veela ballerinas. He would later be disowned by his family for impregnating his veela mistress, leading to a bitter estrangement that would cause him to lose contact with his elder sister and twin brother.

Well, that's it for now! The next post I make will probably be more focused on the Rosier-Volant descendants, and maybe I'll give a little more insight on the Rosier family itself, especially Laurent and Vinda Rosier's parents.

[poetryandbloods-blog]

The new face for one of my OC favorites, Corvus Rodolphus Lestrange, tell me he doesn't look exactly like a young Bellatrix? And the mouth seems to run in the family, as it also resembles Rabastan.

My young Bellatrix, breaking hearts forever.

[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: ………

[cquarrel]

CHAPTER 5: WITCH COMES CALLING

Revised and updated on ao3!

Tom Riddle and Hermione Granger are coworkers in the wizarding world of the 1950s.

[sofoulandfairaday]

Maybe it's the Hannigram/Hannibal NBC craze I'm on at the moment, but this is Rodolphus Lestrange (love of my life), and if you disagree it's fine, but know that I'm right, and you're wrong.

[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.

[capriddle]

I'm curious to know what relationship Voldemort and Rodolphus have. In my vision they have a good relationship, they get along well and Rodolphus never resented Voldemort for Bellatrix's attentions because he knew full well that Bellatrix was never his.

[viviandarkbloombartylusversion]

Currently tweaking cause the Noble House of Black alone has three pages on my Sacred 28 family doc, The Lestranges are only half way done, the Rosiers have less than a quarter written and I still have 25 other families to at least outline😭

[captain-lessship]

Where We Once Were Pt. 2

You were smiling to yourself as you scribbled on your divination notes. You were really good at it, or so Professor Trelawney said. You often stayed behind after class, it being your last one, to help her set up for her class in the morning. 

“Mr. Lestrange? Could you hand me the purple teacups?” She asked, standing on a stool that was balanced on a small table.

“Of course, though professor, wouldn’t it be better to levitate them up?” You asked, handing her the tray.

“Why does a raven put stones in a watery vase instead of finding a puddle?”

You just lightly laughed, “I mean, you have got me there. Is there anything else?” 

“No no, you can go on. Thank you.” She said.

You turned and walked down the street to the hallway. Humming lightly to yourself, you were tired but you knew that you had school work so you were already planning to do it at the dinner table. 

Suddenly, a girl appeared and stumbled down the stairs. You instinctively reached and grabbed her before she went off the edge of the stairs, “Oh my god, are you okay?” 

“Yes, yes. I am-“ she stopped when she looked at you. You also stopped. It was her.

“You’re Pollux Lestrange.” She stated, pulling her arm from you, you hadn’t realized you were still holding her.

“You’re Hermione Granger.” You replied.

“I-Um, thank you for catching me.”

“Oh! Yeah, uh, no problem, though, where did you come from?” 

She grinned slightly, the light from the candle on the wall illuminated her lovely features, “Don’t worry about that. But I do I have a question for you.”

“If I answer,” you smiled, trying to hide your huge grin that she was talking to you. “Will you answer my question?”

“Yes,” She looked down, “Are you, I know this might be a sensitive subject but are you like your parents?” 

You looked at her expression for a second before you sighed, she stared at your face, which the glowing moonlight covered, making you look peaceful. 

“I don’t have their anger not their beliefs. I will admit that I do have my mother’s devotion to that of which I care about.” You said, thinking about her, her photo in your room at your Aunt and Uncles house.

Other than your nose and jawline, you got your features from your mother. You shared her curly hair, rich brown eyes and smile. Hers were sharp with intelligence and with a glimmer of something you couldn’t quite put your finger on. “Also some features bear resemblance.” You said, smiling.

She nodded, “I get that, sort of. Well,” she pulled a small necklace, “this is how I appeared.” She said, lips sealing, showing that she didn’t want to say more. 

“Well, Hermione, will you walk with me to dinner?” You asked, hoping she didn’t detect your tone and didn’t see the tips of your ears and your cheeks which you knew were reddened.

“Sure, I am starving.” She smiled as you both walked down the stairs. “Are you going to sit with us?” She asked.

You thought about it. “Well, I don’t know if I really should. But I will walk you to your table.” You compromised.

She nodded, she knew what or rather who you were worried about. 

You knew what your mother did. You knew it all.

[marta-krasina]

Камелия Розвуд

Пра-пра-...-бабушка Рудольфуса и Рабастана со стороны матери, Касандры Селвин

А также один из дальних предков Лили Эванс (или нет??)