Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Rabastan Lestrange
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| Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter - Character | |
| Rabastan Lestrange | |
|---|---|
| Gender | Male |
| Hair color | Unknown |
| Eye color | Unknown |
| Related Family | brother Rodolphus Lestrange |
| Loyalty | Lord Voldemort |
Contents |
[edit] Overview
Rabastan Lestrange is brother to Rodolphus Lestrange.
[edit] Role in the Books
[edit] Goblet of Fire
Although the action referred to takes place before the series starts, it is in this book that we are introduced to Rabastan, as Harry witnesses the trial of his group by means of Albus Dumbledore's pensieve.
Shortly after Lord Voldemort's disappearance, he and three other young Death Eaters (his brother Rodolphus Lestrange, his brother's wife Bellatrix Lestrange, and Barty Crouch Jr.) attacked and tortured Aurors Frank and Alice Longbottom, using the Cruciatus Curse on them until the two lost most of their mental faculties. All four members of the group were sentenced to imprisonment in Azkaban.
[edit] Half-Blood Prince
Twice, Professor Dumbledore and Harry visit Horace Slughorn's memories of one particular night when Slughorn is meeting with Tom Riddle and his associates. In both of those memories, Slughorn notes that it is eleven o'clock, and says that it is time to send the gathered students off to bed, remarking to two of them, Avery and Lestrange (who could be either Rodolphus or Rabastan), that they have an essay due, and would be given detention if he didn't have it ready.
[edit] Strengths
[edit] Weaknesses
[edit] Relationships with Other Characters
[edit] Analysis
It is never made entirely clear what has happened to Rabastan. We see him being sentenced to Azkaban, but while his brother, Rodolphus, escapes, there is no further mention of Rabastan in which his first name is mentioned. A couple of times, a Death Eater is addressed as "Lestrange", without indication whether this is Rodolphus or Rabastan.
For no real reason, we have in the Muggles' Guide assumed that Rabastan died in Azkaban. We know that Bellatrix' husband Rodolphus survived, as Tonks reports having injured him while dueling on brooms in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows; on that admittedly negative evidence, we have assumed that Rodolphus alone survived, and all references to "Lestrange" are in fact references to him.
