Advena

Author's Note: Hello! This is my first ever FanFiction, I've read a lot of them for a long time, and I'm on my summer holiday so I thought I'd write one. Bellatrix is my favourite character, even if she is slightly insane, however in this story I've changed her, she was never married to Rodolphus, which I think added to her complete and utter downward spiral, so her sanity is mostly intact, even if a few of her morals are questionable. I do plan for this to be a reasonably long story, with at least 10 chapters, maybe more if the story turns out to have an in depth plot. So, I hope you enjoy the story!

Disclaimer: I don't own any of the Harry Potter characters, and many of the names, settings etc. are the property of J.K. Rowling. No copyright infringement is intended.

Pureblood. The word that had been tattooed into her mind from the beginning, a word her family had insisted she learnt the meaning to. She had believed in the power and importance her blood held as a child, she had believed in her mother's utterances of "filthy mudbloods", and her father's frequent references to "the vermin, polluting our world". Of course, being a descendent of one of the purest wizarding families in Britain, she had known no different, and obediently trusted in the statements of her parents, and therefore expected everyone else to believe in the same thing. This was until she arrived at Hogwarts.

During her time at school, although being a faithful Slytherin and never fraternising with people that were not approved of by her family, she discovered another side to the Magical World that she had never encountered before. There were in fact wizards and witches who were not Purebloods, be that Half-blood, or even the Muggle-borns, who were just as powerful and could perform magic on the same scale as herself. This was the first time that she doubted the truth within her upbringing.

She understood the choice that her sister, Andromeda, made when she chose her husband, a Muggle named Ted Tonks, over her family. Although at the time, she was engulfed by anger, she was angry at her younger sister, for abandoning her, she was angry at her parents, for driving Andromeda away, and lastly she was angry with herself, due to the lack of control she had over the situation. Bellatrix Black loved to be in control, and with control came power. The factor of power is partly what drove her towards Lord Voldemort. Power had always been at the centrefold of her family, her father had demanded it, so as a result Bellatrix craved it, and wherever power appeared to be headed, she followed it, almost as if a loyal servant.

Her necessity for power is what drove her away from love. She disagreed with her parents in that sense, she would not be forced into a marriage, Bellatrix was no one's pet and would not be driven in a direction without her consent. If she married, it would be for love, it did exist of course, as her sister Andromeda had found it, and Bellatrix also believed that her youngest sister Narcissa loved her husband Lucius, even if he tended to be an aristocratic hypocrite at times. Since leaving Hogwarts, Bellatrix had made a silent agreement with herself that she would not let her quest for love get in the way of her passage for power, as to her that was the answer to happiness.

Bellatrix had maintained her loyalty to this agreement, until 16th May 1981, a date that should have solely marked another Muggle killing, not a day that changed her life forever. For that was the day, that Bella properly began her quest for love. That was the day, that Bellatrix met a Muggle, a Muggle that held the key to her quest. Bellatrix learnt that love could be found in the most unexpected of places.

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