Here’s a Breakdown of the ENTIRE Lestrange Family, Because It’s Very Confusing

Between five Corvuses and also differing levels of participation in the two Wizarding Wars, the Lestrange family members most definitely gets knotty. Even Yusuf Kama needed to attract everything out while examining Credence’s partnership to the pure-blood family.

If you’re perplexed concerning who’s that, maintain reading as we break down the twisty Lestrange family history!

In the initial Harry Potter series, the name Lestrange is synonymous with steady loyalty to Voldemort. The poster kid of the household is, all, Bellatrix Lestrange, that Helena Bonham Carter gives birth to in a fantastically bad performance.

Though, as we’ll mention, she herself isn’t a Lestrange by blood. The family members ends up being important once more in Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald after we learn about Newt’s dear friend Leta Lestrange and her link with Credence Barebone.

Radolphus Lestrange The Lestrange family, as we know it, goes back to Radolphus Lestrange, that, according to
Pottermore, acted as the Minister For Magic from

1835 to 1841. He attempted to close down the Department of Mysteries throughout his brief run as Minister. Radolphus at some point stepped down as a result of bad health and wellness, though it was hypothesized that he could not take care of the stress and anxiety of the workplace. Corvus Lestrange Corvus Lestrange belonged to the Lestrange family that married a lady called Heloise Beaufort, producing at the very least one kid: Corvus Lestrange II.

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Brace on your own for the line of Corvus’s! Corvus Lestrange II Corvus Lestrange II was the kid of the Corvus Lestrange Sr. He married Minette Rosier, as well as they had 3 youngsters: M., Josette, as well as Corvus Lestrange

(III). Corvus Lestrange III He wed his initial cousin Eglantine Lestrange. You can think what he called his kid.
Corvus Lestrange IV

Right here’s where the twisted exposition in The Crimes of Grindelwald kicks off. Corvus IV is a seedy man through and through, utilizing the Imperius Curse to obtain Laurena Kama to leave Yusuf’s dad and marry him. Laurena passes away after giving birth to her daughter Leta Lestrange, or Yusuf’s half-sister. Corvus IV later marries Clarisse Tremblay. Their union causes the birth of Corvus Lestrange V.

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Leta Lestrange Sorted into Slytherin, Leta goes to Hogwarts with Newt, swiftly becoming buddies with him. Before Grindelwald kills her, she had actually been engaged to marry Newt’s brother Theseus. A lot more on Leta listed below and also her connection to her more youthful half-brother.

Corvus Lestrange V

While boarding a ship to America with her infant sibling, Leta changes his crib with one more baby since Corvus had been fussing. The lifeboat that her real brother is on wind up turning over, leaving Corvus to drown to his fatality. The various other baby gets taken on by Mary Lou Barebone in America. Leta later discloses this to Yusuf, saying Credence Barebone couldn’t possibly be her brother since she had actually eliminated Corvus. (Credence is, for now, a secret Dumbledore.)

Lestrange

In Harry Potter as well as the Half Blood Prince, Tom Riddle has a close Hogwarts friend called Lestrange (no first name that we understand of), that’s probably a direct descendent of Radolphus and related to Leta as a distant relative. He later turns into one of the initial Death Eaters. He’s perhaps Rabastan as well as Rodolphus Lestrange’s papa.

Rabastan Lestrange

Rabastan and also his brother Rodolphus are 2 of Voldemort’s a lot of trusted fans. After Voldemort’s loss, he, his brother, Bellatrix, and also Barty Crouch Jr. abuse the Longbottoms. The Lestranges wind up in Azkaban, however ultimately run away to serve the Dark Lord once again.

Rodolphus and Bellatrix Lestrange

Zoë Kravitz once told The Independent that she plays Bellatrix Lestrange’s great-great aunt. Bellatrix isn’t a Lestrange by blood (that we understand of), however when you think about the name Lestrange, you’re most likely considering her. She weds Rodolphus Lestrange, and they both loyally commit themselves to Voldemort.

In Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, we learn that Bellatrix has a secret infant with the Dark Lord called Delphini, who was conceived in the direction of the end of the Second Wizarding War. In 2020, Rodolphus leaves from Azkaban as well as lets Delphini find out about her family tree.

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