Leta Lestrange

TW: Bullying

It's just something I discovered throughout the books and the movies. Bullying in Hogwarts was something that persisted through literally decades. And this is just so tragic. Hogwarts definitely needs a school counsellor.

Let us trace things to the earlier incidents...

[SPOILER ALERT!]

Leta Lestrange was bullied by several students in her school years due to gossip and the awareness of her half brother's death. She was an outcast, and she responded with a dark charm once. She became the one to blame because she lashed out to defend herself. Points were taken from her house. The students told on her. I know some of Leta's actions were selfish, but the tragedy she suffered from left quite a mark on her. She always felt like if her hands were unclean.

And does anyone remember Myrtle Elizabeth Warren? A.K.A Moaning Myrtle? In her student years, she was teased because of her glasses and acne, Olive Hornby is one of them. She is also the one to find Myrtle's body when Myrtle was crying in the bathroom due to her teasing. The even darker fact was that Myrtle remarked, "Nobody missed me even when I was alive. Took them hours and hours to find my body — I know, I was sitting there waiting for them." Decades after, she was only known as the ghost who haunts the girls bathroom on the 1st floor, and students still had the nerve to throw books at her for a game which she did not find funny.

In the Marauders Era, bullying occurred between the Marauders and Severus Snape. (Not to mention, Lupin was a bystander. He was still a kind person but he only shot a sympathetic gaze at the victim and did not take action.) When they were humiliating Snape in the chapter Snape's Worst Memory, the students around them simply watched, some even cheering them on. I don't know if the professors did anything back then, but if they were bullying someone for 5 years (or more), the rules are just not effective enough.

James Potter matured and changed his ways of course, which was a good thing, but the damage is done. Whatever great deed he does, it does not excuse him from being a bully. As for Severus Snape, of course it is painful to see the person you love, fall in love with the one who bullied you throughout your school years. It's hard to say, but sometimes, what happened in the past just won't affect the bullies because their mindset is just like that, and they can continue their normal lives, even becoming successful...While those who were bullied were left with scars. However, it also does not excuse Professor Snape from bullying Neville Longbottom. See? The cycle repeats itself.

In the series, it's mostly the Golden Trio vs Draco Malfoy. And about Draco Malfoy, well...He also reformed in the end, and he's also a deep character like all the HP characters, but it does not excuse him from all the bullying he did for 6 years of his school life. Insulting muggleborn wizards? That's basically being racist in the wizarding world. I know he became a troubled individual in the 6th book, even Harry noticed that he doesn't even abuse his prefect powers anymore, but again, his actions are not justified. He is very much a coward, afraid to kill Dumbledore but also wants to kill him because it's Voldemort's orders, and even refusing Professor Snape's assistance.

And here's something I might also post separately:

Luna Lovegood was also bullied in the books, but this aspect was slightly neglected in the movies. Her housemates stole her possessions, she was judged just because of her quirks and beliefs. Before meeting the Golden Trio, Ginny Weasley was probably the only friend she had. But even Ginny calls her "Loony Lovegood" as a joke sometimes (Maybe Luna is okay with Ginny calling her that? In the movies, she seemed unaffected by how the other students perceive her, but in the books, she got annoyed when Hermione kept disregarding her beliefs, and won't let anyone insult her father's work. Despite being quite extraordinary, she is still very much a person with feelings, who can be lonely at times, and desires friendship.

To conclude (not meaning for this to sound like an essay, but...) Bullying in Hogwarts had been occurring for decades, yet most clashes were resolved hastily by professors, and there were many bystanders. Hogwarts should really hire a school counsellor, since not much bullying was actually dealt with and solved from the roots of the problem. Action was taken, but it was not enough. Doing a bit of calculation, then you can see that it's been almost a century. Almost a century of bullying. Bullying is mostly encouraged when no one reports, and there were many bystanders who just marvel at the show. Then they clap.

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.

A boggart appears to be the viewer's worst fear. Harry's worst fear is a dementor - technically, fear itself. Hermione's worst fear is failure, so her boggart appeared as McGonagall telling her she'd failed. Lupin's worst fear is the full moon and his transformation, so the boggart appeared as simply a full moon. And so on.

But Leta Lestrange's boggart is her brother drowning. How is that her worst fear? Dumbledore's boggart was his sister's dead body, but that was because his worst fear was that he was the one directly responsible for her death. Leta already blamed herself for being responsible for Corvus's death. How can her worst fear be her brother dying if he was already dead?

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.

Has anyone watched the Secrets of Dumbledore yet?

Let the romance begin

I really want to watch it but i can't. so i wanna know the review too. how is it ? is it good? is tina there? why was tina not in the trailer?

Also it's been a long time since i came here!

I feel as if Slytherins are too Misunderstood, and in

FB: Crimes of Grindelwald

Leta Lestrange (R.I.P.) Was a Slytherin student being bullied by Gryffindor girls.

And, I was upset when I found out there were no Slytherins I’m Dumbledore’s army, I wish I could slap Harry Potter, Ron and Hermoine rn /j but there were Hufflepuff’s, Ravenclaws, and Gryffindors but no Slytherins NOT EVEN NICE ONES! like Harry and Hermoine, and Ron at that point thought all Slytherin students were evil (thanks a lot ron for telling him that /j lol) like bro, Mr. Pottah and Ms. Granger (at the time) don’t judge a book by its cover, there were evil Gryffindors, Hufflepuffs and Ravenclaws, but you didn’t care, in every single house there was a bunch of evil kids coming out from it.

Don’t judge a book by it’s cover… - Not what Harry, Ron, and Hermoine did b4 DH.

From an in-universe perspective, there were no Slytherin students because Hermione oversaw recruitment for Dumbledore's Army — since she did not interactive positively with any Slytherin students, she didn't invite any to join.

(Also thanks a lot birds nest lol)

More stuff supporting my claim ig:

Why didn't they ask any nice Slytherins to join Dumbledore's Army? - Quora

Haven’t seen it yet is it worth it?a

And first of all was it a good movie ?

Birth Month -

January - Harry Potter

February - Draco Malfoy

March - Ginny Weasley

April - Albus Dumbledore

May - Voldemort/Tom Riddle

June - Newt Scamander

July - Leta Lestrange

August - Hermione Granger

September - Ron Weasley

October - Luna Lovegood

November - Neville Longbottom

December - Severus Snape

Favourite Color -

Red - kissed me

Orange - stabbed me

Yellow - cruciated me

Green - betrayed me

Blue - helped me

Purple - punched me

Pink - helped me

Other - torured me

Favourite Harry Potter book -

SS - in front of Voldemort, Snape and the Carrows

CoS - in front of Narcissa, Lucius and Bellatrix

PoA - in front of Newt, Leta and Credence

GoF - in front of Gellert, Nagini and Jacob

OotP - in front of Tina, Queenie and Newt

HBP - in front of Harry, Ron and Hermione

DH - in front of Dumbeldore, McGongall and Snape

Favourite Number (One through seven) -

1 - because he/she was forced to

2 - because he/she was angry with me

3 - because he/she wanted to kill me

4 - because he/she loved me

5 - because he/she wanted to protect me

6 - because he/she wanted to teach me something

7 - because he/she wanted to protect me

Mine is -

Draco Malfoy kissed me in front of Harry, Ron and Hermione because he wanted to protect me.

IDK? Makes a little sense, because I have a crush on Draco. (1% crush on Harry)

. @A big pile of schist

Here yas goo

This is set after grindelwald comes back and the fightaroo happens

It’s going to be set after gellert comes back and all that right (I’m so bad at explaining things Lols

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OC forms yay

First Name:

Middle name:

Second name:

Age:

Sexuality:

Gender:

Pronouns:

Family:

Grindelwald of the original Dumbledores army:

Wand:

Tattoos?:

Friends:

Wizarding school:

House:

Blood status:

Backstory (optional):

Shipable:

Apperance?:

Personality:

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OC forms yay

Name: Danny

Middle name: rose

Last name: grindelwald

Age: 22

Sexuality: bi bi bi 🕺💃

Gender: genderfluid

Pronouns: she/ them

Family: dad grindelwald mam unknown other dad D U M B L E D O. R E siblings????

Grindelwald of the original Dumbledores army: torn in between but mainly DA

Wand:

Tattoos?: yep

Friends: newt, Tina, leta, queenie, Jacob, credence (you get where I’m going with this right)

Wizarding school: hogwarts hogwarts hogy hogy hogwarts

House: GRYFFINDOR

Blood status: half blood (oooooo)

Backstory (optional): well hee mom and dad met in school he didn’t know she was a muggle born and that’s how she’s half blood

Shipable: yea

Apperence:

But her hair is this short

With black at the top

Personality: sweet, shy, brave, sarcastic, sometimes quite angry

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WARNING: Spoilers for Crimes of Grindelwald.

Random pings:

@FawkesTheFawkes @Rayvena @CrypticKhajiit @Slytherin.Goddess.Of.The.Moon @Boltbunny @InsertWittyNameRightHere @Second British Hong Kong Ball @SaneAsEXpelled

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!