#siritrix

Imagine if it was Bellatrix.

Thoughts on bella/Sirius?

thank you very much for the ask, anon!

i've set out some thoughts on siritrix here - and i do generally back it, especially because of the potential for mess it contains as a pairing.

and the idea that pureblood families practise arranged marriage is certainly one of the few bits of "pureblood culture" fanon i accept - and i think that it's entirely plausible that, in some cases, these arranged marriages take place between cousins.

[although i do think it's worth pointing out that orion and walburga are not first cousins - and that we don't actually hear of any pureblood couple in canon, except for the pre-marvolo generations of gaunts, who are so closely related.]

i also think that it's entirely plausible that some of these arranged marriages are forced ones [although arranged and forced marriages are not synonymous inherently], and that sirius causes considerable drama for his parents when he runs away in that his estrangement from his family also results in the breaking of an engagement.

do i think bellatrix would have been in contention to marry sirius? probably not.

the age gap is large enough that, even if they married immediately after sirius left school in 1978, she'd still be twenty-six or twenty-seven - and all the evidence of canon is that this would make her an old maid by wizarding standards...

i also think that her parents would be unlikely to permit her to be in an engagement which still had several years before it could result in marriage after andromeda ran away from home - which, given that tonks is born in 1973, when sirius is thirteen or fourteen, rules him out. and i think that orion and walburga would be unlikely to be keen on bellatrix if she'd been engaged or married previously - even if she'd been widowed in an unscandalous way.

[i also think that bellatrix is someone whose canon characterisation relies on her having a slight naïveté behind her malevolence - and her not having the opportunity to develop any life experience outside of the restrictive social conventions which govern the pureblood world, other than the life experience she's offered by voldemort, is a key part of this. as i've said here, i like the idea of her and rodolphus marrying when she's barely eighteen - and voldemort being able to groom her by taking advantage of her lack of experience in both life and love.]

and so the sister i think there's a good case for as sirius' unwanted fiancée? narcissa.

the age gap is smaller, she's the most conformist - and so cygnus and druella would probably be less worried about her running off if she wasn't married quickly, and she's the one that sirius would clearly get along with least.

Worst fanon ship: Tomarry filth

Day 3 Title: Vérité Prompt #: 226 Ships: Sirius Black/Bellatrix Black Lestrange/Barty Crouch Jr., Sirius Black/Bellatrix Black Lestrange, Sirius Black/Barty Crouch Jr. Rating: E Wordcount: 2957 Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings

“By Salazar.” Surely she uses magic somehow to make her sigh resound through all their cells, “let me know when you meet a boy who doesn’t like it hard and fast, Bartemius." To Sirius she says, "darling, be a good boy for me and tell me what you’re doing?” Her voice sings across their dank surroundings. “Sometimes, babydoll, you have to let them take the lead.”

Rules: Post the last line you in your current WIP and tag as many people as there are words

Thanks @siriusly-sapphic for the tag!

This is a line from a Sirius/Bellatrix fic I’m working on for a discord server

“Aw, but that’s what you like about me.”

This is not happening in a happy context :) that is all I’m going to say :)

Okay, cool .

*continues to write it*

Alright, I see.

*plans to write several more fics*