Bellaray

**Bellaray** is a ship between our beloved administrator of this wiki, Rayvena and Bellatrix Lestrange

## Bellatrix Lestrange and Rayvena - History

**Bellatrix "Bella" Lestrange** (née **Black**) (1951 – 2 May, 1998) was a British Pure-blood witch, the eldest daughter of Cygnus and Druella Black, cousin of Regulus and Sirius Black, and the elder sister of Andromeda Tonks and Narcissa Malfoy. She was a member of the House of Black, an old wizarding family and one of the Sacred Twenty-Eight. Bellatrix started her education at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry in the early sixties (either 1962 or 1963), and was Sorted into Slytherin House.

After graduating from Hogwarts, Bellatrix became a Death Eater. She was fanatically loyal to Lord Voldemort and was among the most dangerous and sadistic of his followers. All the Black sisters married pure-blood wizards, except for Andromeda who married Muggle-born Ted Tonks and was disowned by the family.

After Voldemort's fall from power, Bellatrix, her husband Rodolphus Lestrange, her brother-in-law Rabastan Lestrange, and Barty Crouch Jnr captured and tortured the Aurors Frank and Alice Longbottom, seeking information about Voldemort's whereabouts which eventually drove the two Aurors insane. The four Death Eaters were caught and sentenced to life imprisonment in Azkaban. Voldemort eventually returned to full strength in 1995 and Bellatrix, Rodolphus, and Rabastan escaped from Azkaban in the 1996 mass break-out, along with seven other Death Eaters.

Bellatrix participated in several battles of the Second Wizarding War, making it a particular goal to murder any relatives who were members of the Order of the Phoenix. She successfully murdered two, her cousin Sirius Black and niece Nymphadora Tonks. She also murdered the Malfoy family's former house-elf, Dobby, who had become a firm ally of Harry Potter. During the final battle, Bellatrix was the last Death Eater standing. She was eventually killed in a duel by Molly Weasley after her attempted murder of Ginny Weasley.

Before her death, Bellatrix secretly gave birth to an illegitimate daughter named Delphini, whom she conceived with her beloved master, Lord Voldemort. Delphini was conceived sometime after the Battle of the Department of Mysteries in 1996 and before Bellatrix's death at the Battle of Hogwarts in 1998.

However, Bellatrix’s current girlfriend has a more complicated history: having been created in Limbo and broke into the real world in 1666 as a formless mass of shadow, and using mimicry and magic, the creature then transformed itself into a human-appearing woman with pale skin, blue-green eyes, and blonde hair, and witnessed many events as she snuck around the world, taking on the full name **Rayvena Ax Hinomoushi** and not knowing why she was created or what she is. However, in 1889, Ray lived with a group of humans who acted like her parents, who knew what she was but didn’t hide from it. However, when their house was raided by a Dark Wizard of their time, both “parents” were killed, and the Dark Wizard captured Ray and revealed that he had cast an illegal and highly powerful immortality spell and that he could not die of natural causes; he had also created Ray, but had been unable to find her after her creation. He stated he’d originally created her to be a manifestation of evil to serve him and that although her original form was a mass of shadow, her true form was to be a dragon; enraged at this news, Ray unlocked her dragon form, which had purple scales, red wingtips, and black eyes, and killed him. Once she turned back into a human, her hair was permanently changed purple with red and black bangs as a representation of what she really was.

Struggling to pick up the pieces, Ray snuck around Hogwarts throughout the 1900s in many various forms to entertain herself by watching the trouble many wizards got themselves into, as well as envying people due to their humanity and the fact that they could age and die, which Ray herself would never do. Eventually she began to show herself more and even made the acquaintance of several wizards, although for fear of being unaccepted never told them what she was and instead made up lies to excuse her presence.

Ray was around for Bellatrix’s death and revived her using the powers she is bestowed with after finding her history interesting.

## Ship

The two were believed to have become friends not long after they met, but soon enough they started to date and Ray told Bella what she is, which Bella gleefully accepted; Bella also helps Ray hide who she is from people she doesn’t want to know, telling them she is instead a half-blooded Hufflepuff. The two officially married in 2021 in a McDonald’s parking lot, and after which often spend time together. Although they are sometimes apart, they typically are together have done many zany things in the Wizarding World, such as— well, that’ll be revealed later in the fanfic *Ensnared but Secured* by DramioneBeautyQueen, which the duo will appear in.

### Ship Name

The name of the ship comes from Rayvena's first part of her name, "Ray", and Bellatrix's first part of her name, "Bella"; thus, ship is called Bellaray.