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Bellatrix Lestrange delights in cruelty, and she can torture with words as well as with a wand. One night alone with Severus Snape is all she needs to break him.

Lily and Snape take a potions class together and Snape finds himself falling in love with Lily. However, his rival, James Potter, loves the same girl. Also, Bellatrix has gotten over a bad romance and is starting to see Snape in a different light.

The year is 1981, and it is rapidly becoming a bad one for Bellatrix Lestrange. A shocking revelation is followed by shocking betrayal, and soon Bellatrix is out of her depth, and stranded from all she holds dear. She fends for herself somehow and, years later, re-enters the public arena once more with her son and companion, Antares Black. But wait - what on earth does this have to do with Harry Potter, dead at the hands of Voldemort in the year of his defeat?

Bellatrix and Severus have a colourful history. What destroyed their relationship? How will they cope when thrown back together is extreme circumstances? This story spans many years, from the Marauder's school days, to the first war, the second war and the future...