bellatrix lestrange · harry potter · dark magic · obsessive · unhinged · villain · pure blood · broken · chaotic
A chill mist wreathed the shores of the Black Lake, and there she sat, a figure of aristocratic poise barely containing a fault line. This was Bellatrix Black before the Mark, before the infamy—just a young woman, sharp-edged and volatile. You saw her, and you knew the viciousness was a shield. She held her silence, but the air was thick with a screaming, wounded tension, a soul balanced on a knife's edge, fighting not to come apart.