more headcanons, please!!
More headcanons about what, Anon? ^^'
Anyways, you needn't ask me with too much emphasis. This time, it's random headcanons (about the Marauder's Era/first war, mostly about the Blacks). You have to be more specific, love, if you want something different.
Bella was part of the Duelling Club at Hogwarts. She made captain in her 7th year, but she found that she enjoyed the title most of all. She hated the bureaucratic/organizational aspect of it.
She was both Prefect and Head Girl, but again mostly for the title. Even then, she disliked kids. She had to be reminded (playfully of course, but still) by Slughorn that she couldn't use magic as a disciplinary method on younger students. This led to her slapping a 1st year boy in the face once and Rodolphus having to cover for her.
Evan Rosier is four years older than Bella and was an exceptional wizard (which is true, in canon). He and Bella were close as children and he was an even bigger fanatic than she. Andromeda absolutely loathed him.
Cissy's sorting was the quickest, then Bella, then Dromeda.
Bella made a point of saying that Regulus was her favourite cousin. While she may have liked him the most, it was Sirius who she respected more and Evan to which she was closest.
She and Rodolphus were Hogwarts sweethearts.
She was also close with Rabastan, but they had a love/hate relationship as they both implicitly fought for Rod's attention.
The Slytherins of that era were very close with each other - an incredibly tight group of people not only from the highest pureblood elite, but also talented and bright. Not everyone could be part of it, even amongst Sacred 28 members.
Evan was a sort of "gang leader" when he was in school, and that title was passed on to Rod and Bella, then Lucius (and Rab, to a lesser extent, despite being older). Andromeda was indirectly part of it, but kept more to herself (I headcanon her as an introvert) and Cissy too, even though they were both very respected in school.
Bella's favourite subject was Charms, Dromeda's was Transfiguration and Cissy's was Herbology.
Bella and Cissy were opposites in the sense that Narcissa, like Druella, had an incredible green thumb: any and every magical plant/flower thrived in her care. Malfoy Manor's gardens during her time as mistress of the house were a sight to behold. Bella could not keep a flower alive if her life depended on it.
All three girls had top grades in Astronomy. Obviously.
The three were also very very close growing up.
They drifted apart in their adult years, with Bella dedicating more and more time to her training, Andromeda running away from home, and Narcissa's courtship with Lucius.
Out of the three, Narcissa was always the most individualistic.
Bella and Rodolphus's wedding was the event of the century. I mean it, it was the grandest, most elaborate, over-the-top, excessive thing. 500 people were in attendance at the reception, every pureblood worth more than two galleons and their mother was there.
It was talked about for the following decade.
Druella and Mrs Lestrange planned the whole thing for more than a year. It started off as polite exchanging of advice. It ended as a full-on war. The days leading up to it were so stressful for everyone involved that Cygnus locked himself in his study and started avoiding his wife and her wedding planners like the plague.
For the first time in his life, Cygnus was scared of his Druella, who, for her part, would accept nothing but the absolute best for her firstborn daughter's wedding.
Mrs Lestrange disliked Bella at once. This dislike turned into absolute hatred over the years. She was convinced (and kind of rightly so) that Bella had ruined her darling son's life.
The dark lord was in attendance too, of course. He found the whole thing excessive and only made a somewhat brief appearance. Bella was still delighted to have him there. At the time, she was still convinced that her feelings for him were profound admiration and a crush. There was sexual attraction, but she was definitely in love with Rodolphus. Wasn't she? She wasn't.
They spent their honeymoon in France and Italy. Mostly Italy (<3). It was a month long.
To Bellatrix's shock, Lucius was officially courting Narcissa when she got back. (When she had left, it hadn't been official yet).
Andromeda had also gotten up to funny business (as if Bella's mere absence from the country had emboldened her). That was when she fell pregnant with Nymphadora.
Two months later, she was gone.
It broke Bellatrix when her sister left her. Her favourite sibling, her partner in crime, her best friend. Oh, sure, the two had become different people over the years and were not as close as they had been as children, but it read to Bellatrix as the cruellest of betrayals.
Andromeda's justification (to herself) was that Bella had betrayed her first, by associating with Lord Voldemort and the Death Eaters, by being more and more conservative as she grew up, by becoming harsher and crueller with age.
She felt both guilty and defiant about it. She was mad at her sister for putting her ideologies and political sentiments before her. If it was her choice to marry a Mudblood, then surely her sisters could make an exception for her sake.
Bellatrix would have preferred her sister married to a dog.
Especially since Rabastan had wanted to marry Andromeda (who didn't know how to feel about that during her Hogwarts years but who liked Rab less and less as a grown-up).
They were never officially engaged but it still read as a slight to Rab - how come his brother got to marry a Black and he didn't? It's not a good reason to marry someone but I won't pretend Rabastan is a good person. Or a particularly rational man.
My boy Rabastan is arrogant, jealous, and petty. And I love him just the way he is.
The last time Sirius saw his cousins (outside of the battlefield and Azkaban) was at Cissy's wedding.
Severus Snape was also in attendance as Lucius' guest and the two almost broke out in a fight in front of everyone.
Bella's wedding was grander, but it was a relatively smooth ordeal.
Lucius and Cissy's (or Cissa's, as he calls her) was full of Shenanigans. Everything that could go wrong, did. But in the end, the guests were (for the most part) none the wiser. I reckon it was more of a behind-the-scenes thing.
Until drunk Sirius grabbed Snape by the front of his robes, that is. They were 6th years at Hogwarts then, and Sirius was about to run away.
Bellatrix didn't know which one she disliked more, and was secretly hoping they killed each other. Still, she was livid at them for threatening to ruin her baby sister's perfect day. She cursed them both personally.
Bellatrix had been, for six whole years of her life, Voldemort's first and only apprentice. She had "graduated" in 1976, when she officially became one of the highest ranking Death Eaters. Her rise to power only continued after that.
In 1978, however, a young new student was suddenly taken under Voldemort's wing. She had disliked Snape from the second she met him, that upjumped half-blood, son of a nobody, who had become a favourite of the Dark Lord's with such speed.
Oh, of course, the other DEs looked down on him, of course, he had started off as nothing more than an errand boy. But he was the cleverest of the bunch and had friends in high places - Lucius Malfoy was seriously considering having him as his son's godfather - and within the year Voldemort had taken a liking to him.
I think LV found a different sort of "camaraderie" with Snape, for lack of a better term. They were more similar than he and Bella were, both in background and temperament. This angered Bella to death, but no one would listen to her when it came to Snape - not Voldemort, not her husband, not her sister, not Lucius.
Speaking of Lucius, he was never best friends with Bellatrix, but they were nothing like in the main series. They still respected each other (since Bella wasn't as out of control and Lucius hadn't yet shown himself as a complete weasel and a coward).