Parallels between the Weasleys and King Arthur's fami...

[dittanymorgan]

No: HPFGUIDX 31638

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "heathernmoore" <heathernmoore at y...> wrote:
> --- In HPforGrownups at y..., "lucky_kari" <lucky_kari at y...> wrote:
> > --- In HPforGrownups at y..., GerRoJen at a... wrote:
> > > 
> > > I feel that perhaps the Malfoys' hatred of Muggles may stem 
from 
> > Narcissa's 
> > > past.  Perhaps she wanted to be magickal and married a wizard 
just 
> > to be 
> > > "in".  
> > > Jessie
> > 
> > Though I don't give one minute's credence to the Narcissa Malfoy 
is an 
> > Evans school of thought, I feel strangely attracted to finding a 
> > reason why this may be so.
> > 

lots of snipping 


> >  Call me a cynic. This is a nice sentiment, but a false one. For 
large chunks of society, it's money, or society, or getting-my-own-
damn-way, or elitism, or alcohol, or everything *but* love which 
conquers all. Lucius, from what we've seen of him so far, doesn't 
seem to be intended as a character from whom love would conquer bad 
breeding.
me, now:

      Lucius Malfoy, as mirrored by his son, is not a man in whom 
love is a viable component.  Also, to reiterate the meaningful-names 
motif, Narcissa is a feminisation of Narcissus, of Greek legend, who 
was so beautiful and so vain that he starved to death admiring 
himself in a still pool of water.  This marriage (IMO) must have 
provided Malfoy with something of great value to him, perhaps an 
alliance with an old-but-exalted wizarding family, or the like.  Lust 
might have taken Malfoy into a mudblood's bed, but not a mudblood 
into the Malfoy family.

Good try, but it won't wash.

dittany/custodienne