you follow your heart (but lose your mind)

Power and purity.

I was too young to understand those things came with a price.

This was why when the Dark Lord came knocking, I let him have her without a second thought. There was no question about it - she'd be ridding the world of the filth that didn't deserve to live in it.

Imagine it - a world where Mudbloods grovel at our feet where they belong. doesn't that sound lovely?

It did. Even back then, I knew that was how the world should be.

But that was then.

That was before.

It was before I married Lucius.

And before I had Draco.

And before I truly began to sort out my priorities.

Because the question - was pureblood domination really worth it if everyone I loved had to die to make it happen? - never had an answer that anyone liked. Especially Bellatrix. She was so convinced that the Dark Lord wasn't just using her, that he cared about her, that I just didn't have the heart to set her straight.

He didn't love her, he never did, he never would.

I loved her, I always had, I always would.

But I'd given her away and now I couldn't get her back.