Yeah, the explicitly Irish Catholic-coded, "Every Sperm Is Sacred" family, whose matriarch is a badass who effortlessly strikes down the serial killer woman I saw that even as a little kid and despised it https://twitter.com/ShieldingC/status/1309287101503078400 …
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Hot take: The way you can really tell that Cursed Child was JKR fanfic that she approved but didn't come up with the ideas for herself is that Bellatrix actually fucked Voldemort and bore his son JKR would NEVER have made Bellatrix a mother
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The most hateable women in Harry Potter are all defined by NOT being mothers -- Bellatrix Lestrange, Dolores Umbridge, Rita Skeeter When bad guys are mothers, their motherhood is always a very conspicuous humanizing, redeeming trait -- Narcissa Malfoy, Petunia Dursley
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Merope Gaunt, notably, has her whole tragic life wrap up with dying in childbirth to bring Voldemort into the world The hoary old death-by-childbirth trope is necessary so that she bear no moral culpability for the monster her baby Tom became, her maternal love remains pure
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She does, yes, and JKR says that the Love Potion is symbolically the reason Voldemort was a bad seed from the beginning (which is... a problematic trope) But she didn't make Merope be a bad *mother* to Tom, she doesn't get the chance
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