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1. Before the Madness Hits by ash_elair20

   Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling  

   • Mature
   • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
   • F/F
   • Work in Progress

   17 Oct 2025

   Tags

   • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
   • Bellatrix Black Lestrange/Rita Skeeter
   • Bellatrix Black Lestrange & Narcissa Black Malfoy & Andromeda Black Tonks
   • Lucius Malfoy/Narcissa Black Malfoy
   • Andromeda Black Tonks/Ted Tonks
   • Bellatrix Black Lestrange
   • Rita Skeeter
   • Narcissa Black Malfoy
   • Andromeda Black Tonks
   • Blaise Zabini's Mother
   • Sirius Black
   • Regulus Black
   • Cygnus Black III | Walburga Black's Brother
   • Druella Rosier Black
   • Walburga Black
   • Orion Black
   • Tom Riddle | Voldemort
   • Lucius Malfoy
   • Rodolphus Lestrange
   • Pandora Lovegood
   • Barty Crouch Jr.
   • Evan Rosier
   • Rabastan Lestrange
   • Horace Slughorn
   • Minerva McGonagall
   • Albus Dumbledore
   • Filius Flitwick
   • Rivals to Lovers
   • Hogwarts
   • Death Eaters
   • Fluff and Angst
   • Internalized Homophobia
   • Period Typical Bigotry
   • Protective Siblings
   • Slytherin Politics
   • Quillkiller
   • Ravenclaw/Slytherin Inter-House Relationships
   • The Noble and Most Ancient House of Black
   • the black sisters
   • A bit toxic
   • Implied/Referenced Child Abuse
   • Emotional/Psychological Abuse
   • trying for a slow burn but im impatient so who knows
   • Lesbian Rita Skeeter
   • Jealous Bellatrix Black Lestrange
   • stalking if you squint
   • bellatrix starts crazy and gets crazier
   • Unhealthy Coping Mechanisms
   • bellatrix starts off problematic and gets more problematic
   • they meet in chapter three but it takes off after that I promise
   • they aren't toxic at their peak trust
   • your honor they are obsessed with each other
   • no one important dies so that means its happy right

   Summary

   “I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.”
   - Edgar Allen Poe

   Bellatrix Black has one good quality: loyalty. The small family she has made at Hogwarts is her top priority, and nothing will change that. That is, until a nosy and unfuriatingly pretty blonde snoops into her life and sabotages her dueling club matches, and Bellatrix finds her attention drawn towards something other than school, dark magic, and family. As her rivalry with Rita Skeeter spirals into something addicting and sweet, Bellatrix is torn between her family and the only girl who can melt her icy walls completely.

   Series

   • Part 1 of The Deranged Lestrange and How She Came To Be

   Language:

   English

   Words:

   19,412

   Chapters:

   8/?

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