RP Backlog - Practice Makes Perfect Date: August 19th, 1978 Characters: Bellatrix Lestrange and Barty Crouch Location: Basement of the Lestrange Manor Warnings: Cruelty to House Elves Public/Private: Private Summary: Bella is giving Barty some extra training. Status: incomplete
Bellatrix wandered around the basement of her husband's home. Still it didn't feel like her own, despite having been married for almost a year. But she had free reign of the place, and so inviting one of the younger Death Eaters to stop by for some one on one tutoring was an option for her, and given the pupil worth the investment of time. Barty, or Mandrake as she had taken to calling him, had promise. There was some techniques she had in mind to carefully hone and so she had invited the young man to her home. She had informed him to apparate in. It was more discrete and aurors from time to time tended to monitor activity in and out of her home.
She suspected he was overly fond of her and truthfully she enjoyed the attention as she often did when such things came her way. She thought rather highly of herself and enjoyed any form of adoration or respect or any attention really in any form it may take.
The basement was minimally decorated, it functioned more as a den than anything else. And since it was not really being used for much of anything it seemed the best place to hurl a few spells and curses about. There was nothing there of any real value. Rodolphus was out running some errands, but knowing she had company he would likely give her the space she needed to do what needed to be done. He was not the overbearing type, which suited her just fine.