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Hello! I'm not sure if this is the right place to post this, but since I came across the topic here, I thought it would be appropriate.

I was reading oryx_leucoryx's wonderful GoF chapter commentary and it was mentioned that Bellatrix/the Lestranges managed to talk their way out of Azkaban before attacking the Longbottoms. This is actually something I've come across before on various forums and when reading theories, but I can't find anything about it in the books. I tried looking for old interviews and it isn't mentioned there either as far as I can tell. So I was just wandering, how do you know this? I'd be very grateful if someone gave me a quote or something :)

Also, this is my first post here, so I'm sorry if I've made some grave error.

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From:

snapes-witch.livejournal.com

Rodolphus Lestrange from the Lexicon:

Slytherin, early 1970s (GF27).
A Death Eater, brother of Rabastan, husband of Bellatrix (GF27, GF30, OP6). Rodolphus and his brother Rabastan were captured by the Ministry of Magic after their attack on the Longbottoms (November or December 1981) and given a life sentence in Azkaban (GF27, GF33); however, they escaped when the Dementors turned against the Ministry in January 1996 (OP25)

I don't believe the brothers were actually mentioned by name, but we're told that some of the DEs claimed to have been imperiused and thus avoided prison..

Edited Date: 2012-06-18 06:33 am (UTC)

From:

ladyzenobia.livejournal.com

Thanks for the reply! I read the part about the imeprius defence in GoF but it only says that Avery got off and the Lestranges are a married couple in Azkaban. And then, of course, we known that Lucius also used the imperius defence. But I'm still not sure that Bellatrix ever needed to. Mind you, I would like to see her blackmailing Crouch with his sons involvement *evil grin*

From:

oryx_leucoryx

We don't know what is meant by 'talked their way out of Azkaban'. It could be claiming Imperius, it could be blackmail (telling Crouch that if he kept them arrested someone might spill the beans on his son).