Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Rodolphus Lestrange
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| Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter - Character | |
| Rodolphus Lestrange | |
|---|---|
| Gender | Male |
| Hair color | Dark |
| Eye color | Dark |
| Related Family | Bellatrix Lestrange, Rabastan Lestrange |
| Loyalty | Lord Voldemort |
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[edit] Overview
Rodolphus Lestrange is the husband of Bellatrix Lestrange and brother to Rabastan 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 Rodolphus, 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 wife Bellatrix Lestrange, his brother Rabastan 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] Order of the Phoenix
We only hear about Rodolphus once in this book, when Lucius Malfoy tells Rodolphus to go with Bellatrix Lestrange to find Harry and the Prophecy. From this, we gather that Rodolphus was among the escapees from Azkaban near Christmas time.
[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] Deathly Hallows
We only hear of Rodolphus once in Deathly Hallows, when Nymphadora Tonks (his niece by marriage), says they injured him during their flight to her and Ron's portkey at his Aunt Muriel's.
[edit] Strengths
[edit] Weaknesses
[edit] Relationships with Other Characters
As noted above, he is the husband of Bellatrix (née Black).
