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

[catherinemckiernan]

No: HPFGUIDX 73091

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "jenny_ravenclaw"
<meboriqua at a...> wrote:
> --- 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.
> <snip>
> 
> --jenny from ravenclaw ****************************

I wonder if the "loving Mum Narcissa didn't want Draco to go to
Durmstrang tale" is just an excuse. After all, there are good reasons
for Lucius not to want his son at Durmstrang. It's run by a traitor to
Voldemort, so in that respect the head is little better than DD.
Moreover Lucius is supposed to be clean, wrongly accused, donations to
charitable causes etc.etc. If Draco is at Drumstrang, people might
start to get the right idea, that Lucius is still heavily involved in
the Dark Arts. At the same time, loyal Death Eaters wonder why Lucius
sends his son to Hogwarts, home of the Muggle-loving fool Dumbledore.
Narcissa's alleged attachment to Draco is a good excuse for both
sides, and the sort of thing that can be plausibly uttered by a 14
year old boy (especially if that's all they've told him). Staying out
of the Death Eater inner circle is also politic - if no-one can accuse
her, it makes it harder to accuse Lucius until he's caught red-handed.
Then while he's in Azkaban, she can carry on the good work down in
sunny Wiltshire while her sister snoozes in the guest room.

Catherine McK - voting for evil and cunning Narcissa