Corvus Lestrange (V)

These are some headcanons I have about Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, in no particular order:

• Mary Lou knew that Credence was magic, but only because she thought his mother was Irma Dugard - a half-elf, half-witch would certainly be "wicked" and "unnatural" in her book.

• Leta used to hold her breath under water for as long as she could.

• The only people Credence ever truly cared for were Modesty, Nagini, and Aberforth.

• In present-day, Credence isn't very well-known, because most people don't know that Credence Barebone and Aurelius Dumbledore are one and the same.

• Credence, due to being the one to most often care for Modesty, is surprisingly good with children.

• Credence's aunt on the ship who drowned trying to save Corvus was actually his mother; she only said she was his aunt because she wasn't about to announce that she was the unwed mother of the child she had with her.

• Chastity was a Squib whose magical parents abandoned her in a No-Maj orphanage after they realized she didn’t have magic, only for her to be adopted shortly afterwards by Mary Lou Barebone.

• Aberforth holds a grudge against Ilvermorny School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, and against the entire Magical Congress of the United States, because Ilvermorny never detected Credence, and because of how badly MACUSA handled Credence’s case, even in present-day, nearly a hundred years later.

• Leta's father purposely sent his son to Mary Lou, figuring that Yusuf Kama would never suspect that young Corvus was in the care of a magic-hater, and that he would come retrieve him once it was save. Only, when he came to get his son back, Credence was there instead.

When young, and older, Leta would fill up the sink and plunge her face in.

She'd hold her breath as long as possible, blood thundering in her ears. That's what it was like for Corvus, she thought, as though she needed any reminding.

She never lasted more than three minutes. She'd gasp and sputter, dripping wet, swaying with dizziness.

She always felt like crying. This was how she'd killed her brother; she wanted to share his suffering. Yet always, the urge for air overcame her; she'd think of Corvus in the dark green sea, nothing but water in his lungs.

This is basically the POV of Leta Lestrange's father, Corvus Lestrange the Fourth, on sending his children to America so Yusuf Kama wouldn't find them. Basically him valuing his son's safety above all else and his daughter's not at all. But then, what else would you expect of him?

He'd send his son to America, Corvus decided.

His sources told him that young Kama was on the hunt, out to avenge his mother. Thus far, Corvus and his wife and children were all unharmed; if Kama had made any attempt to harm them, he didn't know of it. The Lestrange manor was well warded. But he could not trust that Kama would one day bypass them, just as he had figured out how to bypass the wards on the Kama manor. To send his son away, until Kama either gave up or was dealt with, was the best option.

He couldn't place him in the care of a wizarding family there - the ones his family was affiliated with would be obvious targets, and the ones his family wasn't affiliated with would have questions as to why, exactly, Kama was so intent on hunting an infant down, questions Corvus would rather not answer.

He couldn't trust his son to the anonymity of a Muggle orphanage, either. A Muggle orphanage would have no magical protection at all.

However, there were Muggle families to consider.

Normally, he wouldn't even consider it - leaving his only son, his heir, scion of the Lestrange pureblood line, in the care of Muggles. But then, these were not normal circumstances. Anything had to be done to keep Kama from finding his son. Hopefully, he'd be able to....take care of Kama soon enough. But in the meanwhile, desperate times called for desperate measures.

He was currently arranging, through a middleman, for his son to be adopted by a Muggle woman named Mary Lou Barebone.

He had obtained a copy of a list of prospective adoptive parents from New York, along with any information that could be found out about them. Mary Lou had caught his eye, because she knew that magic existed - and hated it.

He didn't know how she had found out about magic. Wasn't the International Statue of Secrecy upheld even more fiercely in America than it was in France?

But he certainly wasn't going to stir up trouble, not when this served his purposes so well.

She knew about magic. She knew magic existed. She got many of the details wrong, but she was right in the basics. And she hated magic with a passion.

She despised all forms of witchcraft vehemently. She would likely rather die than knowingly house a magical child under her roof - or have the magical child die.

And that was what he was banking on.

No one - not Kama, not any of his associates, not anyone in the wizarding community, no one would suspect that he'd sent his son to the care of a magic-hater. Wizards steered clear of Muggles - except Muggle-borns, probably, but that was only to be expected - and especially Muggles who hated magic. The International Statute of Secrecy had been accepted worldwide for a reason.

The Second Salem Church was the last place Kama would look. His son would be safe there.

There was the small risk that Mary Lou would notice signs of magic from little Corvus. But it shouldn't take more than a couple of years to take care of this whole situation, and then he'd retrieve his son, either wiping the Barebone woman's memories or killing her to be on the safe side. No one would notice one less Muggle.

As an afterthought, he decided he might as well send Leta as well. Kama probably wouldn't try to kill her too, being as they shared a mother, but it was best to be on the safe side, just in case. If his daughter was killed by her own half-brother, people would talk. It would look bad. And even if Kama wasn't searching for her, too, if he sent only his son to safety and not his daughter, that would also cast a stain upon his reputation. She could live with the house-elf for a bit in America, he supposed. The details didn't concern him.

So in Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, Leta Lestrange is depicted as going to Hogwarts as a Slytherin, but she's also depicted as a french resident, with family there going back many generations. This is confusing to me because there's already a magic school in France (Beauxbatons). So why didn't she go there?

After learning about the Kama family's Unbreakable Vow of vengeance, Corvus IV sent his children off to the Americas, specifically New York. We see them on the boat where Corvus V was swapped with Aurelius Dumbledore by Leta, ultimately leading for Aurelius to be adopted by the Barebones family. Where did Leta go? Did she just go back home after this? Why is she going to Hogwarts? I guess we could assume that Corvus IV and Leta moved to England or Scotland, perhaps? Maybe she was adopted by the British Lestranges? I can't think of any other reason why she would not have attended Beauxbatons over Hogwarts.

WARNING: Spoilers for Crimes of Grindelwald.

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The greater good!

Leta hated Grindelwald, but she hated herself more. She had let Corvus die.

Now, Yusuf finished his story. Leta began hers.

"Corvus never stopped crying."

But the story never finished.

A handsome man with long and ragged hair apparated.

"Corvus Lestrange is not dead, he will never be dead, and he is standing in front of you!"

"Corvus?"

"Yes, Leta. I was found by a Muggle who raised me, and I went to Hogwarts."

"Corvus!" Brother and sister forgave all in a warm embrace.

Sorry this was so short, and I hope you enjoyed it!

Crimes of Grindelwald made me think; what if he was saved at the last second with the Bubble-Head Charm, conjured an air bubble around him and etc. and is/was still alive, and hid him for all those years without anyone knowing? A witch or wizard could've possibly, somehow preventing the family tree box from showing that he's still alive, unlinked him from it, so it can't show him growing up, or found a way to create a realistic illusion that only showed him as a baby when in reality he was all grown up to hide him from his father and his family's legacy. Unless Leta or anyone else saw him die and/or his dead body, this could actually be possible.

Check out the last post and if possible all the previous posts to better understand this one.

https://harrypotter.fandom.com/d/p/3343172654596355881

Key Point: The prediction is about Credence, Ariana and Corvus Lestrange/Yusuf Kama.

Tycho Dodonus Prediction says,

“A son cruelly banished
Despair of the daughter
Return, great avenger
With Wings from the water".

Let's piece out each line of prediction:

1. A son cruelly banished- It's not Corvus but Credence. Think about it, was Corvus really cruelly banished? Not at all. Infact, his father sent him to America out of love for his son, to protect him from Yusuf Kama. It was actually Credence who was cruelly banished by his parents. Both Mustafa and Kendra abandoned him(see post 4)

2. Despair of the daughter- Ariana. As I explained, she found about her brother and fall in despair cuz of this.(see post 4)

3. Return, great avenger

With wings from the water

Let's rephrase these two last lines:

Return, great avenger

with wings, from the water.

Now does it make sense?

=> It's Credence who returns from the sea, having survived it.

=>It's Corvus Lestrange(disguised as Yusuf Kama/see post 6), the great avenger with wings of Raven(see post 5) to avenge from Credence, the child whose father Mustafa Kama was responsible for his isolation from his own family(see post 4).

So, Yusuf wrongly stated the meaning of prediction to Credence and team.

I believe, Corvus/Yusuf is intensionally creating a relationship with Nagini(see post 1) so that he and Grindelwald can manipulate Credence in future when he will discover the real intensions of Grindelwald.

They would use Nagini as a bait to force Credence in doing their biddings.

With this, I finally end my series of theories with this magical number post, 7😁

Key point: Yusuf Kama is Corvus Lestrange in disguise.

So, we established in the previous thread(link below) that Yusuf Kama is an animagus bird, specifically a Raven.

https://harrypotter.fandom.com/d/p/3343172654596355460

What I'm theorising now is that Yusuf Kama is actually Corvus Lestrange. Quite the opposite of what we were believing.

Let's support this theory now,

First read these sentences which Yusuf says to Credence and team.

KAMA

His servant, Irma Dugard, was a half-elf. Her magic was weak and therefore left no trace I could follow. I had only just discovered how you had escaped when I received news I never expected . . . The ship had gone down at sea . . . But you survived, didn’t you?(to CREDENCE)Somehow, someone had pulled you from the water!

So, you see, Yusuf received news that the ship with Corvus on it drowned and he assumed Corvus died in the incident. Which means, he thought he fulfilled the vow made to his father because Corvus was dead.

But if Corvus was really alive and someone saved him which Yusuf discovered like 26 years after the ship incident because of the rumours then shouldn't he have died during these years? Cuz ofcourse, he thought he fulfilled the vow but in reality he failed to fulfill the vow as Corvus was alive, right?

But Yusuf didn't die. Neither he seemed to realise this at all.

The only explanation is he is lying. I'm theorising he is not Yusuf at all. Yusuf Kama is dead because he failed to fulfill the vow. And this Yusuf Kama is actually Corvus Lestrange in disguise.

Supporting facts: He was an animagus bird, a Raven, which is the symbol of Lestrange Family.

But you would ask Corvus drowned in the sea in 1901, right?

But if the entire world is convinced that a child may somehow survive from being drowned then why not? But question is who saved him?

I'm guessing it was Grindelwald. Yes, I believe he too was in that ship. Afterall, it's said that after Ariana died, Grindelwald flee from the country. Guess what, he was fleeing to America and saved Corvus from dying.

He raised him and he is one of his acolytes or perhaps an equal. It's just how the Lestrange family started being dark afterall.

Moreover, when have you heard the word Raven in FB series?

First, it was the emblem of Lestrange family. And,

Second, a white Raven, was the emblem of Grindelwald as well as we can see in the messages sent by him to Paris in those black silks. Here's the exact extract:

QUEENIE reaches out to the nearest black banner, and an emblem of a white raven appears beneath her touch.

Huh! It shows the connection between two wizards. Both are fighting for the greater good.

It was all a plan of Grindelwald and Corvus to distract Newt and team from getting at Credence. As Grindelwald said in the beginning, the path has been laid and Credence has just to follow it.

Key point: Credence/Aurelius was not born in 1901

Well, with my previous theory(linked below) that Credence can age backwards, it's now obvious Rowling can put his birth year to be in any year.

https://harrypotter.fandom.com/d/p/3343172654596353805

Now let's just try to figure out his actual birth year and see how we can explain as why he was not born in 1901.

According to wiki and the screenplay, Credence alleged birth year was 1901(not solid, remember, it's alleged date), though his adoption certificate documents him to be born in 1904. See the image below:

Confusing, right? Which one is true? 1901 or 1904? I would say, neither.

Considering the babies were swapped in the ship, anyone would assume that the adoption certificate documents Corvus's birth year actually.

But hey, the ship incident occured in 1901 then how come the adoption certificate documents the birth year of Corvus to be 1904? He was supposed to be born in 1901,right?

Here's the reason, why?

What I theorise now is that Irma Dugard soon found out that the child she saved was not Corvus but Credence. It's specifically said in the screenplay that it was the rush on the ship cuz of which she failed to recognize him at the moment.

Also, you must note Irma knew Credence's aunt and so would have known Credence as well. Which means, she recognized the baby with his real identity later.

Here's the proof from Screenplay where Credence's aunt addresses Irma:

CREDENCE’S AUNT
Irma? They want us to put on life jackets!

Irma didn't immediately submit the baby Credence to Mary Lou. She raised him for about four years and then in 1905, she submitted the baby to the orphanage.

But as, there were no changes in Credence's body during this time, she wrote him to be born in 1904 in his adoption papers to avoid any suspicion. Probably, during these years, she helped the baby grow forward as well which helped Credence grow normally thereafter.

This is the reason why Credence's or more specifically Corvus's adoption papers had 1904 written as his birth year.

This makes sense why Rowling killed Irma, she would have told Credence the whole story after all.

This makes us wondering, what's the actual year of his birth then?

I have chosen the year 1898, for him. There are reasons why I chose this year but I would be explaining that in my next post.