Bellatrix Lestrange gives us the answer in Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix: you have to mean them. Some curses require no specific intent at all to cast.

Explore the terrifying nature of Bellatrix Lestrange, a villain who embodies cruelty and sadism in the Harry Potter series, surpassing even Voldemort in her enjoyment of destruction.

Many deaths and outcomes are explained with specific spells or circumstances, but one in particular has perplexed fans for years: the death of Bellatrix Lestrange.

Harry Potter fans long torn over the death of Bellatrix at the hands of Molly Weasley have made a major realization 13 years later.

The Death Eater Had an Uncertain Fate Brother to Rodolphus and brother-in-law to Bellatrix, Rabastan Lestrange was a Death Eater who fought in both the First and Second Wizarding Wars.

She was raised by a Death Eater named Euphemia Rowle and lived a lonely orphan’s life. Makes it easier to imagine what kind of person Delphini must have become — she became a highly ambitious, ...

Given the timing, it is believed that Bellatrix must have hidden her pregnancy while Voldemort was fixated on his quest to defeat Harry Potter and secure his immortality.

Not only Snape, but Lucius Malfoy, and Bellatrix Lestrange were also loyal followers of Lord Voldemort. Their sole purpose was to serve their master and make him happy. Draco Malfoy is the youngest ...