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

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No: HPFGUIDX 72921

Jenny from Ravenclaw wrote

> 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.


Yes, and she certainly wasn't "protecting" Draco at the QWC when things
turned nasty. She was nowhere to be seen. Just where she was we are never
really told, but my guess would be she was right there beside her
ever-so-charming husband taking part in a spot of muggle-torture.

Nox