[HPforGrownups] Re: Arthurian Legand & HP

[Jesta Hijinx]

No: HPFGUIDX 59947

Rhianyn the Cat wrote:

>Well, now, if we plugged Lily into the Gwenhyfar role opposite, say 
>Narcissa
>Malfoy wouldn't that set the cat amongst the canarys?  Lily, of course, is 
>a
>hinge upon much, if not all turns and as yet we can only speculate about 
>her.
>But I've wondered since the World Quidditch Cup why we even meet Narcissa 
>if
>she's not going to come into some prominences later.  There really aren't 
>many
>characters that we "meet" rather than just see in passing that don't come 
>back
>in more prominence at a later date.  JKR is amazingly thrifty that way and 
>to
>me it adds much to the fun of watching things unfold.
>
While the exact ARthurian parallel is a bit of a stretch for me, I find 
myself thinking of Narcissa vis a vis a more recent character:  Persephone 
in "Matrix Reloaded".  The somewhat bored, distant, increasingly pissed off 
trophy wife.

Generally, women don't get more and more used to a situation (as their 
opposite male numbers sometimes think):  they get more and more fed up until 
they explode.  :-)  Even though we see little of Narcissa, it doesn't seem 
to me that it was a love match between the Malfoys - more the correct 
bloodlines.  And maybe Lucius is playing with so much fire and doing so many 
things that are going to ruin them that eventually Narcissa gets fed up 
enough to provide some valuable information and "go over" to the side of 
good and truth - and maybe that will prove to be the straw that breaks 
Draco's back, ultimately.

Just a thought, because I agree that Narcissa wasn't introduced entirely 
gratuitiously.  JKR *has* shown that she can mention something that takes a 
couple of books to reveal the significance of.

Felinia

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