So it's been a while since I posted... I've been working on a book, but I'm taking an extended break to work on fanfic. In the last fanfic I wrote, many of you gave me some great ideas (harry as the black heir)....here it is if interested....

https://www.fanfiction.net/s/8992496/1/A-Newfound-Legacy


Anyway...I've been wanting to write one fic in particular for quite some time, and some of you (Perspicacity, in particular) gave me some creative ideas. However, I don't wish to use Harry as a vessel for Voldy...

The idea is to write a unique and realistic fic where Bellatrix takes Harry at Grodric's Hollow and raises him as her own in a story that is somewhat compliant to canon (though Bellatrix doesn't go to Azkaban...obviously).

I really do believe that Bellatrix could have been explored as a character much more than she was in canon. I wish to humanize her to some degree. However, her most defining quality traits were her loyalty to Voldemort, her craving for power, and her unstable personality. I understand she was kind of a lunatic, but does anyone here have an idea how she could realistically take in Harry at Grodric's Hollow?

He could either remind her of the Dark Lord (perhaps the next one to train) or a son to care for and make her proud (since it is implies that she couldn't carry a child of her own). I'd like to post the first chapter tomorrow and see where it goes.... but I don't see many realistic avenues here.

Anyone have any ideas? Or would this require a completely OOC Bellatrix?

 

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