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Bellatrix Lestrange
SlytherinDeath Eater

Bellatrix Lestrange

Born:
1951
Died:
2 May 1998

The most fanatical of Voldemort’s followers. She tortured the Longbottoms into lasting madness, killed Sirius, and guarded the Hufflepuff cup. Molly Weasley kills her in the Great Hall.

Appears in

  1. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
  2. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
  3. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

On the timeline

  1. During the first war

    The cup goes to the Lestrange vault

    The Hufflepuff cup, already a Horcrux, is placed in the Lestrange vault at Gringotts. Bellatrix will treat the vault as her charge.
  2. 1996-01

    The Azkaban breakout

    Bellatrix and other Death Eaters escape. Broderick Bode, who had been made to steal the prophecy, is murdered in St Mungo’s.
  3. 1996-06-18

    The Department of Mysteries; Sirius dies

    A false vision draws Harry and five friends into the Department. The prophecy sphere breaks. Bellatrix kills Sirius. Dumbledore and Voldemort duel in the atrium. The Ministry can no longer deny the return.
  4. 1998-03

    Malfoy Manor; Dobby dies

    The taboo on Voldemort’s name gets them caught. Dobby rescues them and dies on the beach. In the same stretch of weeks Voldemort opens Dumbledore’s tomb and takes the Elder Wand. Xenophilius Lovegood has already tried to trade them for Luna.