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Is there anyone else who wanted Bellatrix and lord voldemort to be secretly in love??
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I quite like the fact that he is so purely evil it makes it easier for us to hate him.

Davytron wrote: "I actually got the impression that Bellatrix was in love with Voldemort, but Voldemort was too preoccupied with vengeance, power, + immortality to pay attention."
I got that exact same impression. :P (because I hate both those characters.)
I got that exact same impression. :P (because I hate both those characters.)

I think it's more that Voldemort couldn't love.




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Bellatrix only married Rodolphus Lestrange so she wouldn't lose pure-blood honour; Voldemort was a Half-Blood. Really, she secretly loved Voldemort, and only married Rodolphus so her family would not disown her.
However, Voldemort did not return her love, whether he knew she loved him or not. He is incapable of love.
A note on Voldemort's parents:
The reason Voldemort cannot love is because his parents were not in love. If you have read the sixth book (Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince)it says that Voldemort's mother used a Love Potion on his father. His father, a Muggle, did not truly love his mother.

In fanfic however, I think it would be darn cute. :3

If Voldemort could love, the story would have been impossible. How could a being who was so evil he couldn't even have a whole soul love? How could someone like Voldemort (basically a combination of a sociopath and Hitler) possibly love someone and do what he did? I think the only reason Snape couldn't do what Voldemort did or remain in his service was his small seed of redemptive love for Lily, though that did not make him a wholly good person given his penchant for being mean to Harry.


Though it is pretty obvious that Bellatrix is obsessed with the Dark Lord... He is too much of a lone wolf with a mission to be distracted by Bellatrix. He definitely won't be as evil as he is now.
To love is to destroy

Nanna wrote: "I think it would ruin the character, Lord Voldemort, if they had an affair. Lord voldemort is incapable of loving, he doesn't care for anyone, he's a narcissist and he doesn't let anything stand in..."
Yep. Bellatrix (which is Latin for 'female warrior') was obviously in love with Voldemort, but he was, as Dumbledore constantly reminds Harry, incapable of loving her back.
Yep. Bellatrix (which is Latin for 'female warrior') was obviously in love with Voldemort, but he was, as Dumbledore constantly reminds Harry, incapable of loving her back.

Bellatrix was totally obsessed and in love with Voldemort. I think the idea of their child would have been amazing. But could Voldemort reproduce after he came back in the Goblet of Fire??He had the nose of a snake so....? And also Voldemort was not capable of love, could he lust?Of course he lusted after power, but was the idea of sex even appealing?Was he a virgin?Could he have used his powers to create a child inside Bellatrix just so his legacy could live on?Bellatrix could have almost been a sort of Horcrux if she carried Voldemorts' child. What would their child be like?Could he be Harry's sons ultimate rival?What would his goal be?


I never got the feeling that Bellatrix loved Voldemort, either. She also is a feral creature intent on her own preservation and acts out of her lust for power. As long as she stayed in his good graces, she would have what she needed. As long as she stayed in his good graces, HE would have what he needed. A soldier that was expendable.

But still, this doesn't excuse Voldemort. He could have made other choices, most people in similar circumstances do make better choices than he made. A bad childhood, parental abandonment, bad choices, and great magical power. Not a good combination. It makes me wonder, was there ever a time when he wasn't fully given over to revenge, when he wasn't yet Voldemort, or was there a time when he was just angry, but not yet evil? Probably at some point, but when we see him in school, he's solidly on that path.

Bellatrix was in love with Voldemort, but Voldemort is incapable of love.

Plus Bellatrix was already married! :P




You can't even argue that Voldemort wasn't loved by his mother. We don't really know that. We know that she was desperatly in love with Riddle (sorta that stalker crazy just like Bellatrix). She may have loved her son too, just as Lily loved Harry.
i did and i didn't. i think for them, love is something a bit different for us. for them, love is like a mix of respect, power, fear, worship and sacrifice. i think in their own way, they did love each other. bellatrix worshiped voldemort and he considered her to be his most trusted ally and advisor (next to snape who he always had doubts about). this, i think, is the greatest form of love either of them can actually feel. i think it would have been out of character for them actually to profess their love for each other. not to mention, awkward. after seeing voldemort hug draco, i think all possibilities of a romantic relationship for you know who are nonexistent.


So really, his story of being incapable of love wouldn't work if he was in love. It also would change his character and our perception of him if he had a love interest. He would probably be able to understand things such as love and friendship if he was, in fact, in love, which wouldn't fit into the story at all, and perhaps he would have never tampered with the magic that he did.
In short, Bellatrix was in love with Voldemort, but I never for a minute wanted Voldemort to reciprocate those feelings.





Nah, Bellatrix worked so much better as the the desperately devoted minion than his lover. And Lord Voldy isn't necessarily the loving type...
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