Biography/ Headcannons (NOT SPOILER FREE)
Leta Lestrange
30 October, 1896 - September 1927
Daughter of Corvus Lestrange and Laurena Kama
Step-Daughter of Clarisse Tremblay
Half-Sister of Corvus Lestrange and Yusuf Kama
Fiancé of Theseus Scamander
Alliance to the Ministry of Magic/ the Department of Magical Law Enforcement
Former Slytherin
a monster
Childhood:
Leta Lestrange grew up always being told who and what she was. A pure blooded witch who would one day carry on the family name by attaining the highest possible OWL and NEWTS scores at Hogwarts before marrying a fellow Slytherin pure blood and expanding the family. She was a flower. Nothing more. This is what she was trained to be. Nothing more. Nothing less.
She was lonely, most of her companions being books. When she saw her father it was never pleasant, and then non existent when he remarried. If she did get out of the house it would always be for a visit to her mother at the graveyard she was buried.
The birth of her brother, Corvus, changed everything. She was no longer that flower. She was no longer a Lestrange.
She was separate.
To America:
She was not happy to go to America. She complained and fussed but with a strike from her father she was out the door. Irma, who had worked specifically with Leta most of her life, could do not to soothe her.
Leta just stayed silent, watching her baby brother, who did nothing but wail.
Irma, despite her intentions could do nothing to soothe the child. It was left to Leta, her only words spoken to anyone being hushed lullabies.
For a couple days it gave her an identity, something new. Who and what to be.
But then he didn’t stop crying and all hope was lost.
And so the night that the ship sunk, Leta switched her brother out for another infant, only for a moment, just for some quiet, but the moment passed and before she knew it he was bellow the waves lost her identity once again and found herself to be nothing.
Hogwarts:
It was strange. For something Leta had always dreamed about doing she was not to happy to be at Hogwarts, which she found alright as her classmates weren’t too happy to have her their either, so Leta once again kept to her books and day dreaming about what to do when she got out of this place.
The library was were she spent most of her time, seeing it as a hiding spot for only her, a world that she had to explore.
She met Newt there, the two of them reaching for the same book, and her hiding spot was infiltrated.
The Scamander Brothers:
She never could have had a relationship with Newt. Feelings, sure. Leta Lestrange could and did love Newt with all of her being. She loved Newt and then he got expelled. And she was all alone.
In that solitude she realized what that love was. Dependence.
It was toxic for a relationship. But enough for a brother.
Too pure for her
Theseus on the other hand was another being entirely. Leta credits the solider as the one who shattered her exterior. She isn’t dependent on him, but rather equal with him.
He helped her find value in herself, not gave her value.
He made her feel all light and she couldn't wait to marry him.
He could never find out who she really was
At the Graves:
She couldn’t let him hurt them.
The boy searching for his identity was already another victim to her mistakes. She couldn’t let the boys be another.
So she stepped foreward and raised her want to the leader, turning to her boys.
“I L O V E Y O U”
And let the flames consume her.
-Character is owned by JK Rowling, Headcannons are owned by me
