Draco's redemption Was Re: Narcissa Malfoy: Good or Bad?

[jenny_ravenclaw]

No: HPFGUIDX 72763

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, Melanie Black 
<princessmelabela at y...> wrote:
  
> But I do not think that Narcissa is all that bad...and I think your 
theory about Draco might be correct.  It is obvious that she is the 
one above all that takes care of her son.  Lucius just wants Draco to 
be a mini-death eater.>

Ah, but how do we know for sure Narcissa doesn't want the same thing 
for her son?  Just because she sends him care packages at school and 
didn't want him going away to a school as far as Durmstrang doesn't 
mean she isn't grooming him to support Voldemort and follow in Daddy's 
footsteps.  It is quite telling that it was Narcissa Kreacher went to 
and it was Narcissa who passed along Kreacher's information.  This 
does not make her a good woman.  She may be a loving mother, but a 
loving mother can instill some scary ideas in a child's head.

One of weaknesses (IMO) in HP is the role of women and Narcissa fits 
this quite well.  We see no evidence that she is an active DE, but we 
see that she is a doting mother and appears to be a doting wife as 
well, or at least a somehwat submissive one, as she doesn't say a word 
at the QWC.  She takes a back seat to Lucius and seems to mostly allow 
him to raise their son - it is he who travels with Draco to Diagon 
Alley for shopping and he is the one who keeps showing up at Hogwarts.  
She is there, it seems, to support her husband and son in just about 
anything they do, and that is pretty dangerous.

--jenny from ravenclaw ****************************