Attempt 3: Bellatrix Lestrange

Attempt 3: Bellatrix Lestrange

I was more fortunate in Bellatrix Lestrange. Now here is a witch worthy of admiration – corrupt, decadent, and devilishly handsome in her own way, with a nice figure to boot. Bellatrix pledged loyalty to me and my cause when I explained to her that I wanted to take over the Wizarding World and implement a policy of ritualised blood-cleansing so that pure-bloods will reign supreme.

Upon carefully listening to my outlined schemes, she very politely enquired when she should start plotting to usurp me. Now that is a witch after my own heart – devious, diabolical and corrupt. However, I must make a note to have a little talk with her as to why it would not be expedient for her to usurp me in the near future. Perhaps I should employ some ‘educational’ devices to demonstrate the foolhardiness of attempting to usurp me.

Reminder to self: Pick up a new torture chair, pear, and iron maiden from Borgin and Burkes.

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Author's Notes:

The Pear, also known as the Pear of Anguish was a medieval torture instrument. This extremely painful device was used to punish homosexuals, witches and women accused of inducing a miscarriage. The Pear of Anguish had the shape of a pear. As a handle was turned, the spoon-shaped lobes opened; increasing pain. Even though the Pear of Anguish was mostly used for oral punishments, homosexuals had it fixed in their anus and women in their vagina. Causing severe pain, after this torture was employed on the mouth; the victim's teeth would get destroyed; making blood pour out of the victim's mouth often causing death. If introduced in the anus or vagina, death was a step away. The Pear of Anguish was rarely washed, thus causing infections very frequently. If the victim didn't die by an infection however, he would die by other diseases caused by the severe damage of his or her intestines.

The iron maiden is in fact a sarcophagus. The only two main differences are that it has tips all over the front door and that people died after getting in--and not before. The Iron Maiden was introduced in Germany. Even though it is commonly believed that it was used in the Middle Ages, the truth is that it was invented a few centuries later. Very few people had the misfortune of experiencing what it feels like to be trapped in this sarcophagus. Normally, the big door would be shut slowly; the tips crushing a person in agonising pain. There was a tube in the bottom that made the victim see his own blood as it poured out of his body. The few people that did make it to this device, lasted more than 2 days before death finally struck them.