You're onto something. You're CLEARLY ON TO SOMETHING. WAIT WAIT WAITTTTTT Somebody please write a fic the angst is gonna be so good oml
I think that Walburga and Tom Riddle were romantically and sexually involved during their Years at Hogwarts. Which is why Tom named his First Version of the Death Eaters the Knights of Walpurgis. Her Knights because she was supposed to be his Queen. But Walburga in the end broke up with him because she didn’t want to be married with a Half-Blood and cuz her Relationship with Tom was known she was already sorta defamed among Purebloods and thus could only marry her Cousin Orion.
She would probably also have hated Delphini if she had met her because she would be the living Proof of what she could have had and that ultimately she failed at everything in Life.
She chose her Family and the Pureblood Dogma over the Love of her Life and in turn she only got trapped in a Loveless Marriage with her own Cousin, whom she never loved as much as Tom, a Son who despite being talented spitted on everything she believed in and another who despite sharing her views simply couldn’t live up to her expectations.
All the while she would have to watch her own Niece living the Life that could have been hers because she loved Voldemort/Tom more than anything even her own Family and literally turned her back on her Pureblood Husband to be with him. Now Walburga would have had to watch as her Niece has a perfect little dark princess and is truly happy with the Man who Walburga actually loves and has an extremely talented daughter who is a perfect mix between Tom’s Beauty and Bellatrix’s and an Heiress of Slytherin and Grindelwald.
(I read somewhere that Druella could be Gellert and Vinda’s Daughter and since she was born in the 30s it’s not too far off given how close Vinda and Gellert seem.)
And Bellatrix gained that by truly loving and accepting Tom/Voldemort for who he is instead of what he could be and being brave enough to throw her Family aside for him. That would definitely have broken Walburga down completely and filled her with Jealousy beyond belief.
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