#renissa rosier

[konstantynowitz]

HI I NEEDED TO SHARE THIS

If Renissa had married Evan, it would've been such an interesting parallel because Tasoula couldn't get with Ètienne so their children got together.

I KNOW! And it’s almost the same anyway because Renissa and Evan didn’t end up together either 😭

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Headcanon: Mary Macdonald was best friends with Renissa Lestrange. The friendship earned a lot of judgmental glances and whispered remarks from the other pure-blood groups that thought Renissa was tarnishing her family’s reputation by associating herself with a ‘mudblood’. Nissy didn’t care though, hanging onto her mother’s belief that muggleborns were not so different from people who were actually born into the magical world.

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The Grandmothers — inspired by this post

[konstantynowitz]

Who would Renissa Lestrange marry if she wasn’t obliviated and remained loyal to Voldemort?

I’ve actually only ever thought of this a couple times back when I was first developing Renissa Lestrange. Now that I’ve almost fully fleshed out her character I would have to say that the most likely candidate would be Evan Rosier. I think that it would make sense for her to marry Evan since Rodolphus married Bellatrix, you know? It feels like a match made between the connections the Lestrange family had with the Rosiers, rather than the Black family.

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Wouldnt it make sense for her to get her memories back tho? I mean like if she had any interactions with Felix or Andromeda (and Narcissa) then she would’ve found out anyway right? Or does she still have that concealment charm that warps her appearance a bit?

I still don’t know how the whole concealment charm thing would work. Are there any canon charms or spells that can warp someone’s appearance? Not by much but you know just to adjust their features a bit so that they look similar but not exactly the same? lol it’s oddly specific but I’m not really sure how to explain it.

There’s a chance she could’ve had interactions with Andromeda or Narcissa, but who knows. Your original idea from a previous ask was that Rabastan would tell Andy about Renissa if he had lived? Well maybe it could’ve gone something like that and then Andromeda went looking for her or something? Maybe they started up a friendship when Andromeda “coincidentally” bumped into her at the market, you know? Renissa could’ve found something strangely familiar about the woman that comforted her but Andy would never actually reveal how the two knew each other.

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Doublecanons for Riddle era:

Cygnus Black

The saving grace of the Black family.

Cygnus was the fail safe for his parents and became heir presumptive when Alphard made it clear he wouldn’t be producing any heirs to continue the bloodline.

As a child he was his mother’s little angel.

A blessing to the family, something that brought security to the bloodline in case something prevents Alphard from fulfilling his duties to the House.

Cygnus’s birth brought Irma so much pride because it showed she was capable of providing not one heir but two.

He never got involved with the Knights at school.

Nor did he interact much with Tom Riddle.

For Cygnus, Riddle was an insidious presence that he evaded at all costs.

No good would come from Cygnus associating himself with Tom Riddle and he knew this.

The Knights of Walpurgis were a cult, a group of fanatics, not a band of elite wizards ready to take on muggles and muggleborns by storm.

They abused the power they were given by birthright in the servitude of a half-blood who was using them for his own gain.

Cygnus would not allow himself to be taken advantage of.

He would not let the filthy half-blood taint his family name.

He would not allow bend down on one knee, kissing the boot of someone who ranked lover than him in terms of blood purity and social class.

He wasn’t the golden child, he wasn’t his father’s pride like Walburga, or the heir and therefore the most valued like Alphard.

Cygnus was the extra.

Alphard was needed to ensure the continuation of the Black family, Walburga was Pollux’s favorite, and Cygnus was… well he didn’t have much purpose unless something happened to his brother.

He was close with his elder cousin Lucretia growing up.

She was almost like an older sister to Cygnus, but that’s not to say that he and his actual sister didn’t have a relationship of their own.

Walburga was always looking out for Cygnus, after all he was her baby brother.

She cared about him in her own way…

Wally was more of a tough love sort of gal.

I would say Walburga was like a second mother to Cygnus, as most elder sisters are.

As for his relationship with Alphard, well I wouldn’t say that they weren’t close, but I’d definitely consider their dynamic a little complicated.

Alphard was the heir and Cygnus was the spare.

Their positions in the family didn’t personally define their relationship.

It was just that their were often kept at a distance because of Alphard’s duties to the family.

He had to set an example for Cygnus and it was very hard to separate duty and family from each other because there wasn’t really much of a difference in the Black household.

That’s just how it was. It was easier for Cygnus to have a relationship with his sister than it was to have one with his brother because Walburga didn’t have to do much other than to marry pure.

His mother wasn’t very happy with the idea of her son not marrying a Black.

Cygnus was supposed to have a match arranged between him and his cousin Araminta Melifula Black.

But obviously Cygnus had other plans once he first laid eyes on Druella.

Wally was the one who defended him so that her brother could choose the bride he wanted.

“What does it matter anyway?” She would say to Irma. “His children will still be Blacks. You were born outside of this family, weren’t you? And yet we, your children, are still of this House.”

Irma would give in. Walburga was right.

And besides, the match was perfect.

Ella was from a prominent and influential Pure-blood family.

With the Rosier’s association with Grindelwald there would be no question that she shared in their purist beliefs.

Druella was close friends with Tasoula Shafiq so I could imagine double dates between Ella and Cygnus + Tasja Radolphus.

Especially once the field trips to Hogsmeade start up.

Cygnus and Radolphus would be buying both Tasja Ella sweets and Honeydukes, and the girls would be dragging the boys along with them into all different shops.

Cygnus and Radolphus would be trailing behind their girlfriends, carrying by their hauls of goods while Ella and Tasja are just walking hand-in-hand through Hogsmeade as if they were the ones dating.

Snowball fights and sledding races have most definitely happened between the four of them.

I could see the teams being decided in accordance to who was with who.

So Ella with Cygnus and Rudolph with Tasja.

But in the end I could imagine Ella and Tasja completely disregarding the rules of the game and just team up with each other.

They would turn on their boyfriends so that it was more so like boys against girls.

This probably had frustrated both Cygnus and Radolphus a few times when their girlfriends do end up switching the teams.

But they grow hard to it and even start to team up together sometimes just to give Ella and Tasoula a taste of their own medicine.

This tradition would carry well into their adulthood when they had children of their own.

I could see the Blacks and the Lestranges taking their children out to Hogsmeade.

Bellatrix and Rodolphus would be ruthless when it came to snowball fights.

Rabastan was a sensitive little thing growing up. He’d struggle to even throw a snowball at someone from the thought of accidentally hurting anyone.

Especially Andromeda (who he was secretly crushing on).

Cygnus would be carrying little Narcissa around since she was too young to play.

Maybe he’d build little snowmen with her.

Rudolph would be getting attacked with snowballs by his Rodolphus and Bella.

They would show no mercy…

Tasoula would notice that Rabastan was feeling a little out of place since he wasn’t playing the way his brother wanted him to play.

So she’d teach him how to make snow angels with Ella and Andy.

I like to think about the interactions made between Cygnus and the Lestrange children.

He was like an uncle to the three of them.

Between him and Radolphus, they would be carrying the babies Cissy and Renissa.

Sometimes Cygnus would switch with Radolphus so that he could carry Renissa and Radolphus could carry Cissy.

Renissa loved to be carried by ‘Uncle Cygnus’.

Just like her father, Cygnus would spoil Renissa rotten.

He’d buy her anything she wanted from the stores at Hogsmeade: her favorite sweets, new plushies that she saw on display in the windows…

She had him wrapped around her finger, as if she too were one of his daughters.

They all made up one big family, which is why none of the parents were opposed to the idea of Rodolphus and Bellatrix becoming betrothed when it came time for them to graduate.

Let’s just say Tasoula and Druella were ecstatic.

And Cygnus, well, he just wanted his little girl to be happy.

But he was comforted by the fact that it was indeed Tasoula and Radolphus’s son that was to marry his daughter.

Cygnus wasn’t at all hesitant to give Rodolphus his blessing.

One engaged soon-to-be-married daughter down, two to go.

Andy was going to be arranged to marry Rabastan, but this was something that Andromeda herself was still unsure of.

When Andromeda ran away to be with Ted, Cygnus was distraught.

He didn’t want to disown his daughter, but at Walburga’s insistence, as well as the added stress from the weight of his family’s expectations of him, he had no choice.

He locked himself in his office for days.

All he could think about was how broken his family was now, overwhelming himself with his past memories of Andromeda.

She was his little girl, he was supposed to protect her, and he failed to do that as her father.

Now she was running off somewhere with a muggleborn who Cygnus viewed as a threat to his daughter’s safety.

He didn’t care about blood purity, he didn’t care about continuing his line…

All he cared about were his daughters and the fact that one wasn’t tucked away, safe at home anymore.

What hurt him even more was that Andromeda had left of her own accord and that he’d never get to see her again.

As of that day she was dead to the family.

Cygnus lived with a void in his heart for the rest of his days.

One day, a few years after this tragedy, Cygnus had gotten word regarding the birth of his first grandchild who Andromeda had by that muggleborn swine.

But he could feel no joy, no pride, nothing at all. He had already accepted the fact that his Andromeda was gone.

Tasoula Shafiq

Tasoula was born as the first daughter of Aykut Shafiq and Letitia Greengrass in 1927.

Her name means “resurrection” and is a diminutive form of the name Anastasia.

Tasoula’s nickname is ‘Tasja’, which bears the same meaning as her given name.

She was born with the blood malediction of her mother’s family which caused her severe Fibromyalgia.

Tasja was one of five children; she has three older brothers and one younger brother, who was a year younger than she was.

Tasoula was betrothed to Radolphus Lestrange when she was seven.

Ever since then she and her parents would make frequent visits to Lestrange manor.

She would always be a subject to Madame Lestrange’s scrutiny, especially as she got older.

I could see Madame Lestrange circling around a sixteen-year-old Tasoula in the receiving room of Lestrange manor, almost predatorily as she examined her.

I believe in this moment the Madame would say something along the lines of: “I suppose the girl does seem to posses quite pleasant facial features, and… child bearing hips, which is necessary if she plans to carry the next heir.”

Despite being a victim of Madame Lestrange’s harsh criticism, Tasoula was also the carrier of her hopes and aspirations for the future of the Lestrange family.

Tasoula carried herself well, a perfect pure-blood witch with both elegance and grace, which was appreciated by Madame Lestrange.

Madame Lestrange saw something in Tasoula that reminded her of herself a bit.

She was young and naive, a vulnerable sheep thrown to a pack of bloodthirsty, merciless wolves.

Tasoula was being introduced to a new world… a cold, cruel, vicious world where the weak didn’t survive.

She was now part of the system which she was unfamiliar with, and she would have to play by the rules if she wanted to remain in the family.

Tasja was a breath of fresh air to the family, which was both refreshing and threatening.

It was Madame Lestrange’s job to teach her how things worked in House Lestrange and Tasoula would need to conform to their expectations if she wanted to become Radolphus’s bride.

And so Madame Lestrange took Tasoula under her wing.

Even when she was at Hogwarts, Tasoula would join the Madame every Sunday for tea at Lestrange manor.

They became close after a while, their relationship developing into one a mother and daughter would have.

Tasoula was close friends with Walburga Black, Eileen Prince, Euphemia Fawley, Cassandra Selwyn, and Druella Rosier.

She and Druella were the closest out of the six. They were each other’s ride or die and their friendship remained constant throughout their lives.

Tasja was not afraid of Tom Riddle. She was the only one who could look him in the eye and not feel a shiver of trepidation running down her spine.

She was the only one who did not experience the feeling of sheer dread overwhelming her when he entered the room.

Tasoula didn’t hate muggleborns, nor did she think that muggles should be oppressed by the wizarding government.

Tasoula harbored affections for Étienne Rosier.

She’d often visit Rosier manor for Christmas in order to see Ella.

There was probably an incident at some point where Tasoula has accidentally spilled a glass of New Year’s champagne on her dress and had to change clothes.

So Druella took Tasoula up to her room and lended her some lounge wear which just so happened to be a hand-me-down from Étienne.

Like some oversized dress shirt or something.

And so that night when the girls were getting ready for bed Étienne would catch Tasoula wearing his clothes and say something like, “is that my shirt?”

Tasja’s face would be flushed red from sheer embarrassment and she’d just stutter out an incomprehensible sentence that was originally intended to be used as an excuse if it could even be understood.

“I-, no… yes— I mean no, Ella let me… she…”

Étienne would just laugh and shake his head, flashing her a wink before heading to his bedroom for the night.

Vinda Rosier was the first to notice that her nephew and Tasoula had feelings for each other.

She would be sitting in the morning tea room, spectating from affair as Tasja and Étienne awkwardly interacted with one another.

Vinda could tell by the way Étienne and Tasoula looked at each other that they were in love

She knew that her nephew had fallen madly in love with Tasoula, to the point where it was almost painful for him to love someone that he knew he couldn’t have.

This was because they could not act on these feelings due to Tasoula already having been betrothed to Lestrange.

But in the future, her marriage to Lestrange was a happy one.

She was a doting mother.

By providing the Lestrange bloodline with not one but two sons, she brought security to the family.

Since Radolphus had been the only heir to the English side of House Lestrange as his parents had no other sons.

Tasoula loved her children and was a doting mother.

She was very gentle and attentive towards them.

In spite of it being scandalous at the time for a noblewoman to do so, she breastfed them.

And Tasoula also refused to let a governess raise them.

She was their mother, not some woman that she and her husband paid for.

Tasoula would not schedule meetings for when her children were allowed to come and see her.

They were allowed to go to her whenever they pleased.

There was no such thing as ‘evening tea time’ where that’s the only time the children could truly speak to their mother and father.

No. Tasoula was a pretty hands-on mother.

She was in charge of their early education and would choose the best professors and governesses who came to the manor to teach the kids.

Tasoula would not accept any teacher whose main focus was on blood purity, as many of her friends had done with their children.

She wanted the main focus to be on real education such as history, mathematics, languages, science, literature, etc.

Her children didn’t need someone to teach them about the importance of blood purity and the strain muggle blood has on the magical lines of pure-blood families.

Tasja wouldn’t let a nurse maid bathe them, she’d do it herself.

Just as her mother did when she was a child.

Nor did she let any of her children go to bed without a goodnight kiss, or a bedtime story from both her and Radolphus.

She would make sure that her children knew that they were loved.

When they were babies she’d get up every time to change their diapers, feed them, rock them back to sleep.

Even though Radolphus often told her that they already had a wet nurse and a nurse maid to take care of all that during the night.

In response to this Tasoula would always say: “Well I’m their mother.” Every. Single. Time.

She’d request to eat in a more smaller, more private dining room or breakfast room in the mornings and evenings so that the family could be closer together.

They would serve themselves, no servants were allowed to watch them dine during this time.

It was a private moment between Tasoula and her family and she didn’t want to feel like she was being spectated while she enjoyed time with her husband and children.

At first this was very strange to Radolphus as his parents didn’t even bother eating with him while he was growing up.

Usually he’d just sit and eat with his governess in the main dining room, with its high walls and long table that oftentimes made him feel isolated.

Even when he wasn’t used to what his wife had in store for him and the children, he still found it to be somewhat comforting.

If only Radolphus had this growing up… he was glad his children had a mother like Tasja to give them the childhood they never had.

They would all eat as a family, no one was allowed not to attend family dinner.

If Radolphus was ever busy in his office and planned to eat later in the evening, Tasoula would go to hunt him down.

She intended on eating with her husband and children, not just her children.

It wouldn’t take her that much effort to convince Radolphus to eat with his family.

Rudolph knew he couldn’t defy her. She was too stubborn. And if he wished not to sleep in one of the guest rooms tonight then he better do as she says.

After Rodolphus and Rabastan, Tasoula and Radolphus didn’t plan to have anymore children.

Especially after Rabastan since Tasoula’s pregnancy with him seemed to trigger her blood malediction.

But Tasoula soon realized she wanted another baby.

And who was Radolphus to say no to his wife?

So Tasoula had Renissa and their family couldn’t have been complete without her.

Radolphus was hoping for a girl, he didn’t want another son.

I pin him as somewhat of a closeted girl dad.

He didn’t know that he would ever want a daughter until he got two boys but no girl.

Renissa really did capture her father’s heart the moment she was born.

Tasoula almost died in childbirth and was bedridden for a few weeks after giving birth to Renissa.

The birth had weakened her and caused her great pain because of the malediction.

It was a miracle she survived at all.

After that her health was never the same.

One day she could be fine, and then the next day her health could decline rapidly once more.

But she would push through it for the sake of her children.

Tasoula never let her illness get in the way of the time she would spend with her kids.

Sometimes when it was really bad she would have no choice but to remain in her chambers the entirety of the day, but she would still have them visit her.

The children would play games with their mother, or rehearse little plays or dance shows for her in the bedroom.

Even Radolphus would sometimes watch, or even join in on the entertainment when he wasn’t busy with work.

When Rodolphus went to Hogwarts, Tasoula was there with her husband and two youngest children to escort him to the platform.

I would think Tasja was much like Astoria Greengrass to Scorpius Malfoy.

I could imagine her giving Rodolphus a bag of candies saying, “here, take these, and make sure you share.”

She just wanted her son to make friends.

Even though both Rodolphus and his father would probably remind Tasoula that there was already a trolly filled with sweets on the train.

She didn’t care.

Whenever either of her sons got into trouble at Hogwarts, she’d stick up for them.

“My sons would never do such a thing! They are perfect little angels.”

In spite of knowing deep down that they probably did do something that shouldn’t have…

But she didn’t let them get away with everything.

If it was very serious she would be the one to discipline them, and even encourage the school to punish them with some sort of chore.

Tasoula always wanted her children home for the holidays.

She wasn’t one of those parents who would keep their kids at Hogwarts.

Most of the time, Tasja and Radolphus would throw a Christmas party at their manor for all their friends and family in attendance.

But another tradition was also to visit 12 Grimmauld Place to see Wally and Orion, as well as Ella and Cygnus.

The children would play and the adults would chat amongst themselves.

Usually the husbands would go to have a cigar and a brandy in another room while the wives stayed with the kids and talked.

Wally was probably pregnant with Sirius by Bellatrix’s eighth Christmas.

She was the last one of her friends to start a family so Sirius and Regulus are a little bit younger than most of Druella and Tasoula’s children.

With the exception of Renissa who was born a bit later, perhaps shortly after Regulus.

On Christmas mornings the children would go out to ice skate on the lake.

I could see Tasoula teaching little Cissy to learn how to skate.

When Regulus was old enough to join the older kids he’d probably be afraid that the ice would crack and he would fall in.

But Narcissa would hold his hand and teach him just like Tasoula did with her.

“One foot in front of the other, Reg. That’s what Auntie Tasja told me.”

There would come a day where Tasoula would no longer be able to attend these Christmas parties and the winters within Lestrange would become silent and bleak.

Tasja would pass away during Renissa’s second year at Hogwarts around the late 1970s from illness brought on by the blood malediction.

Radolphus would never be the same man he once was before the death of his beloved wife.

He’d mourn her loss for the rest of his life.

And the children would be distraught, especially Rabastan who was closest with his mother.

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@konstantynowitz what do ya think?

1940s Trio: Walburga Black, Druella Rosier, and Tasoula Shafiq

VS.

1970s Trio: Regulus Black, Pandora Rosier, and Renissa Lestrange

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I’ve gotten a few asks requesting for family trees to be made for some of my ocs. I started working on these in early September but it’s all still just a work in progress so bear with me. It isn’t much at the moment but I hope to expand on a couple branches of these trees in the near future.

Firstly, here we have a glimpse into what my version of the Lestrange family looks like. As you can see there are a few unnamed members, but within the next few weeks I’ll be looking for names to put in these empty spaces. Obviously, we already have the French side of the Lestrange family tree revealed, but my main focus will be on the English side.

The earliest members of the English side of the Lestrange family were R. and F. Lestrange, although they do not seem to be in any of the movies or books. Instead their first mention is made within a video game where their names “R. Le.S.” and “F. L.eS.” appear to be written on boxes of treasure inside the Lestrange family vault at Gringotts. Although it is not revealed whether or not R. Lestrange is in fact Radolphus Lestrange, we’re just going to assume that he is for the sake of the tree and that F. Lestrange was his wife.

Next up we have Dagmar Lestrange and her husband. Dagmar, who I’ve originally introduced as ‘Madame Lestrange’, is the mother of Radolphus Lestrange II, my own version of Lestrange Sr. I don’t know whether or not I want to keep her name as Dagmar but for now that’s what I’m going to stick with. For the moment, I don’t have a maiden name for her, so that’ll also be something that I’ll have to think on.

Here is a quick Google search of her name’s meaning if you are interested. I like how one of the meanings is “mother” since basically her only sole purpose within the Lestrange family was to be the mother to the heir of her husband’s bloodline. But another reason why I like the meaning is because of her dedication to her children, especially Gisela who was her heart. When Dagmar’s daughter died it was like her heart was ripped right out of her chest and she lived the rest of her life without it.

Originally in the past I’ve said that Radolphus was an only child, which is kinda true after the time he was probably around six or seven. But really he does have a younger sister who I’ve revealed in a previous post. Gisela Lestrange was born in 1932, she is the only daughter of Madame Lestrange and her husband, and brought great joy to her mother. When she was four-years-old, she contracted Cerebrumous Spattergroit and passed away, which utterly devastated Dagmar.

For those who aren’t aware, this is what Cerebrumous Spattergroit is within the Harry Potter universe. I don’t know if whether or not this illness was fatal as it seems that it is something that people have recovered from, but I’m going to assume that back in the 1930s there was a higher fatality rate since there wasn’t much to treat it at the time. From what I’ve read, there isn’t a known cure for Cerebrumous Spattergroit.

Moving on from the Lestrange side of things, we now have Tasoula “Tasja” Shafiq and her parents. As I mentioned before in previous posts, Tasoula is an oc of mine who I made to be the wife of Radolphus Lestrange II. She is the fourth of five children and the only daughter of Aykut Shafiq and Letitia Greengrass. Through her mother, she inherited the Greengrass family’s blood malediction which would end up contributing to her death in or around the year 1973. Tasoula was betrothed to Radolphus a year after the death of Gisela, and although her future mother-in-law was hesitant to accept this, Dagmar knew that she’d be getting a new daughter the moment her son’s marriage to Tasoula was official.

As shown above Tasoula had three children with Radolphus:

Rodolphus Lestrange — b. 1949

Rabastan Lestrange — b. 1953

Renissa Lestrange — b. 1962

For anyone who has questions about the blood malediction itself, it only passes through the female descendants of the Greengrass family, so none of the males are at risk of getting it, but their daughters are. So both Rodolphus and Rabastan do not have the blood curse themselves, but if they were to have daughters then they would probably inherit it. As for Renissa since she is Tasoula’s only daughter, she did in fact become a carrier for the curse, but she herself did not suffer from the malediction since it skips generations.

As of right now, I don’t have much on either Aykut or Letitia. If anyone was wondering how Letitia was related to Scorpius Malfoy and his mother Astoria Greengrass, I currently don’t have an official relation between the two families, but for now let’s just say that Letitia is Astoria’s grandfather’s sister. So that would make Astoria and her sister Daphne the great-nieces of Letitia Greengrass.

The Black family’s side of the tree is a bit of a mess right now. I don’t have all members on here yet and I think that’ll probably take me a while to get done since the last time I did a tree like this it almost took me three hours to finish. I kinda just want to go through the process of making this family tree slowly so that there as little inaccuracies as possible.

This is what I have so far, and although you can’t see it yet there is a small portion of the Rosier family cut off from the image. I’ll be doing another post showing more of the tree soon, but this is what I’ve gotten to so far. As you can see, I don’t have anyone from Cygnus’ side recorded here yet, but trust me there’s more to be revealed in the coming days.

If anyone has any questions about the trees or people in them please feel free to ask!

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@konstantynowitz thoughts on Renissa Lestrange x Pandora Lovegood?

[konstantynowitz]

Hi! Your blog looks AWESOME. I was curious about your OC, Tasoula Lestrange (née Shafiq) and I have two questions:

1. Did she get along with Bellatrix, the limited-time (I think) she knew her?

2. How was her relationship with Radolphus II during the later years of her life?

1. Tasoula did get along with Bellatrix. I assume that Rodolphus married her somewhere around the early 1970s, right? So Tasoula would’ve been around by then (at least for a little while). Tasoula and Druella were very close during their Hogwarts years so when Rodolphus proposed to Bella by the time they graduated, Tasoula was more than willing to accept her into the family. I believe that at first she thought that her son was rushing things a bit too quickly, but she knew that Rodolphus cared for Bellatrix, and so respected his decision to marry her.

Tasoula treated Bella like her own daughter, gifting her a necklace passed down through the generations to each Lady Lestrange that came before them. Tasoula would tell Bellatrix, “House Lestrange cannot survive without the women in this family. The men believe themselves to be the pillars of our legacy, but in truth it is the women who allow this family to flourish.” This would be said to Tasoula by Madame Lestrange, Radolphus II’s mother, when she was first inducted into the family, as well.

In spite of getting along well with Bellatrix, she did not approve of her eagerness to accept the Dark Mark at such a young age, especially since her life was already surrounded by so much darkness. It wasn’t until Tasoula died that things in the wizarding world began taking a turn for the worse, but even when she was alive she knew that it would only be a matter of time before Voldemort’s corruption would take hold of more young minds other than just Bellatrix.

2. Radolphus and Tasoula were soulmates and their love for each other was unyielding. As Tasoula’s condition worsened, Radolphus dedicated himself to take care of his wife and was at her bedside in the nights when she was at her worst. He didn’t care of his duties to Voldemort or as Lord Lestrange when it came to the well-being of his wife and made it clear to everyone that she was his top priority.

For the few short years Tasoula had left to live, Radolphus acted like the doting husband, often encouraging Tasoula to remain in bed as he wanted her feeling very little pain as possible. It was only on the occasion that he would allow his wife to step foot out of her room (he wasn’t overbearing or anything but when he knew Tasoula genuinely wanted to get out of bed he would help by carrying her or allowing her to lean on him as she walked wherever she wanted to go). Sometimes he would bring her to the gardens if Tasoula needed fresh air, or to the library so that she could look out the windows and feel the sun on her face while he read to her.

When she died a part of Radolphus went with her. He was completely distraught and would lock himself in his study for hours drinking and trying to distract himself with estate affairs or something of the sort. There was never a moment that went by where Radolphus never thought of his late wife to the point he could barely even look at his daughter Renissa because of how much she reminded him of her.

Thanks for the ask! If I didn’t answer the questions the way you wanted me to and need something to be elaborated please let me know and I’ll try to clear things up the best I can!

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Can you tell more about Renissa Lestrange? What role does she play in the Wizarding War? Does she become a Death-eater?

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Renissa Lestrange was originally neutral during the First Wizarding War, but she started swaying towards the side of the Order mid-wartime. She, like her mother, didn’t believe in Voldemort’s ideologies and refused to receive the Dark Mark. Even so, Renissa still remained associated with the Death Eaters through her family and was much like Narcissa, who was also not a Death Eater but was involved in their cause and privy to all the secrets and plans made by Voldemort. Growing up she was exposed to the purist beliefs of her father and the Death Eaters, but they were never imposed on her as much as they were on her brothers, and because of that she did not become a pure-blood supremacist.

For some time she would be present for meetings between the Dark Lord and his followers, standing as an ally to the Death Eaters, since her family were his most loyal supporters. But her mind was not concealed from Voldemort and he could see that her values didn’t line up with his own, which caused Renissa to be deemed a threat. She would later become a spy for the Order and would inform them of Voldemort’s schemes, but the Dark Lord was not ignorant to Renissa’s betrayal and informed her family that “they needed to prune their tree” (in other words they needed to kill her) Bellatrix herself volunteered to kill her sister-in-law as an act of loyalty to her master, but Voldemort intended for this to be a test for her elder brother Rabastan so that the Dark Lord could ensure his allegiance.

Renissa was not killed, for neither of her brothers could bring themselves to do it. Instead, Rodolphus obliviated her so that she had no recollection of her family or the Death Eaters and their plans. Renissa’s brothers sent her to St. Mungo’s where she would spend the rest of her life under a pseudonym to protect her from Voldemort.

Thanks for the ask!

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Lestrange Sr. headcanons

Lestrange sr was the grandson of former Minister for Magic Radolphus Lestrange. It became a family tradition to give the boys within the Lestrange family a name that bore the first initial ‘R’ after Radolphus.

I headcanon Lestrange sr’s first name to be Radolphus in honor of his grandfather, so he’d technically be Radolphus Lestrange II.

His nicknames are Rudolph or Ru (but anyone besides Tasoula who dares call him these is a dead man).

Other than being British, he is of German and French descent.

Lestrange had three children with his wife Tasoula Shafiq: Rodolphus, Rabastan and Renissa. Renissa is Lestrange’s youngest child and only daughter, and in spite of being a girl she was included in the family tradition of being given a name that started with an ‘R’.

He and Tasoula were a love match, they were betrothed to each other since by their parents since they were seven. The match may not have been their choice in the beginning but they were undoubtedly soulmates.

Lestrange definitely had his fair share of relationships outside of his betrothal to Tasoula, but believe me when I say she was his queen. If he had to choose over his side whores and her, it would be her without question. She is the only one he ever truly loved.

He became a Knight of Walpurgis in his fifth year at Hogwarts when Riddle first started recruiting. Lestrange was second in command of the Knights, if Tom wasn’t there then Lestrange was in charge. Even since the early days of the Death Eaters the Lestrange family always held a position of power amongst Voldemort’s followers.

Close friends with Rosier Sr. — judging by the the French branch of the Lestrange family tree I’d say the two were probably distant cousins.

Lestrange is a seer, which was both a gift and a curse. He passed this ability onto his eldest son Rodolphus Lestrange.

He spoiled his children rotten, especially Renissa. She was daddy’s little princess in all regards. He’d do anything for her, she was the mini version of Tasoula and Lestrange adored her. There was nothing he wouldn’t give her, she was his whole world.

Lestrange held high expectations for Rodolphus as he was the eldest of his children. There was no doubt that when Rodolphus got older he would become a Death Eater like his father, much to Tasoula’s chagrin, although there was nothing she could really do about it.

Rabastan was of course going to follow in his father and older brother’s footsteps. All the sons of Voldemort’s Knights went on to become Death Eaters, especially if they were from prominent pure-blood families such as the Lestranges.

Radolphus and Tasoula would never disown their children if they decided not to fall in line with their family’s purist beliefs. This is mostly because Tasoula refused to abandon her children, she loved her sons and daughter too fiercely to ever cast them out. If Radolphus ever disowned one of his children then he better be prepared to lose his wife as well because wherever her kids go, she goes.

Don’t get me wrong, Radolphus was a pure-blood supremacist, he hates muggles and he doesn’t want them anywhere near his family, nor does he want any of his kids to defend or protect the very people threatening the magical integrity of the wizarding world. But family is family and he loves his kids and Tasoula, and I don’t think he’d be willing to just let them go like that.

Radolphus definitely had this talk with Tasoula when Walburga disowned Sirius. Tasoula was probably the one who started this conversation saying something along the lines of: “you can cast them out, you can disown them and pretend they never existed, but if you do that then you may as well erase me too, because wherever my children go, I go.”

I don’t think Radolphus would have ever considered disowning any of his kids anyway. I believe the Lestranges are a really loyal, tight knit family and they look after their own. After all their family motto is: Corvus oculum corvi non eruit (The raven did not pluck out the raven's eye), which essentially means they’d never betray each other.

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a mutual of mine has given me permission to help on this family tree. I’ve been assigned the Rosier branch and will be helping to expand on it, adding my own ocs into the mix as well as the original creator’s. I’m looking forward to working with @konstantynowitz in this project. If anyone has questions about this tree please message me!

the families will mostly focus on tom riddle’s generation so this is all new territory for me since my blog is dedicated to the marauders era. please bear with me on this because I’m just beginning to get introduced to this part of the hp universe.

I’ve gotten a few asks requesting for family trees to be made for some of my ocs. I started working on these in early September but it’s all still just a work in progress so bear with me. It isn’t much at the moment but I hope to expand on a couple branches of these trees in the near future.

Firstly, here we have a glimpse into what my version of the Lestrange family looks like. As you can see there are a few unnamed members, but within the next few weeks I’ll be looking for names to put in these empty spaces. Obviously, we already have the French side of the Lestrange family tree revealed, but my main focus will be on the English side.

The earliest members of the English side of the Lestrange family were R. and F. Lestrange, although they do not seem to be in any of the movies or books. Instead their first mention is made within a video game where their names “R. Le.S.” and “F. L.eS.” appear to be written on boxes of treasure inside the Lestrange family vault at Gringotts. Although it is not revealed whether or not R. Lestrange is in fact Radolphus Lestrange, we’re just going to assume that he is for the sake of the tree and that F. Lestrange was his wife.

Next up we have Dagmar Lestrange and her husband. Dagmar, who I’ve originally introduced as ‘Madame Lestrange’, is the mother of Radolphus Lestrange II, my own version of Lestrange Sr. I don’t know whether or not I want to keep her name as Dagmar but for now that’s what I’m going to stick with. For the moment, I don’t have a maiden name for her, so that’ll also be something that I’ll have to think on.

Here is a quick Google search of her name’s meaning if you are interested. I like how one of the meanings is “mother” since basically her only sole purpose within the Lestrange family was to be the mother to the heir of her husband’s bloodline. But another reason why I like the meaning is because of her dedication to her children, especially Gisela who was her heart. When Dagmar’s daughter died it was like her heart was ripped right out of her chest and she lived the rest of her life without it.

Originally in the past I’ve said that Radolphus was an only child, which is kinda true after the time he was probably around six or seven. But really he does have a younger sister who I’ve revealed in a previous post. Gisela Lestrange was born in 1932, she is the only daughter of Madame Lestrange and her husband, and brought great joy to her mother. When she was four-years-old, she contracted Cerebrumous Spattergroit and passed away, which utterly devastated Dagmar.

For those who aren’t aware, this is what Cerebrumous Spattergroit is within the Harry Potter universe. I don’t know if whether or not this illness was fatal as it seems that it is something that people have recovered from, but I’m going to assume that back in the 1930s there was a higher fatality rate since there wasn’t much to treat it at the time. From what I’ve read, there isn’t a known cure for Cerebrumous Spattergroit.

Moving on from the Lestrange side of things, we now have Tasoula “Tasja” Shafiq and her parents. As I mentioned before in previous posts, Tasoula is an oc of mine who I made to be the wife of Radolphus Lestrange II. She is the fourth of five children and the only daughter of Aykut Shafiq and Letitia Greengrass. Through her mother, she inherited the Greengrass family’s blood malediction which would end up contributing to her death in or around the year 1973. Tasoula was betrothed to Radolphus a year after the death of Gisela, and although her future mother-in-law was hesitant to accept this, Dagmar knew that she’d be getting a new daughter the moment her son’s marriage to Tasoula was official.

As shown above Tasoula had three children with Radolphus:

Rodolphus Lestrange — b. 1949

Rabastan Lestrange — b. 1953

Renissa Lestrange — b. 1962

For anyone who has questions about the blood malediction itself, it only passes through the female descendants of the Greengrass family, so none of the males are at risk of getting it, but their daughters are. So both Rodolphus and Rabastan do not have the blood curse themselves, but if they were to have daughters then they would probably inherit it. As for Renissa since she is Tasoula’s only daughter, she did in fact become a carrier for the curse, but she herself did not suffer from the malediction since it skips generations.

As of right now, I don’t have much on either Aykut or Letitia. If anyone was wondering how Letitia was related to Scorpius Malfoy and his mother Astoria Greengrass, I currently don’t have an official relation between the two families, but for now let’s just say that Letitia is Astoria’s grandfather’s sister. So that would make Astoria and her sister Daphne the great-nieces of Letitia Greengrass.

The Black family’s side of the tree is a bit of a mess right now. I don’t have all members on here yet and I think that’ll probably take me a while to get done since the last time I did a tree like this it almost took me three hours to finish. I kinda just want to go through the process of making this family tree slowly so that there as little inaccuracies as possible.

This is what I have so far, and although you can’t see it yet there is a small portion of the Rosier family cut off from the image. I’ll be doing another post showing more of the tree soon, but this is what I’ve gotten to so far. As you can see, I don’t have anyone from Cygnus’ side recorded here yet, but trust me there’s more to be revealed in the coming days.

If anyone has any questions about the trees or people in them please feel free to ask!

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Is Ravenrose gonna end up becoming a ship? Because if it does, then I’m on board with it!

The Grandmothers — inspired by this post

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Regulus would be the best uncle to Luna Lovegood and Rolf Scamander 🥰

@konstantynowitz what do ya think?

1940s Trio: Walburga Black, Druella Rosier, and Tasoula Shafiq

VS.

1970s Trio: Regulus Black, Pandora Rosier, and Renissa Lestrange

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Ironically I ship Druella Black with Tasoula Lestrange so that’s a very convenient parallel if we consider Pandora a Rosier 😭

NISSY AND PANDORA SHARE GRANDBABIES OH MY GOSH!!!!

Imagine Renissa just completely forgets about Pandora because of how she was obliviated but when her grandsons Lysander and Lorcan are born she can see a bit of herself and her lover in the both of them.

@konstantynowitz thoughts on Renissa Lestrange x Pandora Lovegood?