[HPforGrownups] Narcissa Malfoy (the real Spy)

[Janet Anderson]

No: HPFGUIDX 85559

>But I *do* think she might have something subtler, such as "Narcissa
>Malfoy was forced by societal/familial/economic pressure to marry
>Lucius, but the love that she and Snape share is still strong."
>
>I'm not saying that I think JKR would endorse extramarital affairs,
>just that she's the type of author that would go ahead and put them in
>her book if she wanted to.

I don't say it's impossible, merely that I think it's unlikely.

(I don't think the Pullman books are a fair comparison because [in my 
opinion] they're set in a world where everyone is more or less corrupt, and 
because those books, while excellent, are inappropriate for the wide age 
groups that Harry Potter reaches -- I would never give them to someone under 
14.)

As for Narcissa, I think she's entirely too boring for Snape.  But I may be 
wrong.  Bellatrix may be a lot of things, but boring is not one of them.   
Even Andromeda Black Tonks, whom we never see, has two pieces of evidence 
that she was pretty interesting -- one, that she left her family to marry a 
Muggle, and two, Tonks herself, who presumably resembles both her parents.  
Maybe if we got a closer look at Narcissa she'd be as interesting as the 
rest of her family.

And you do realize that if there *were* anything in all this speculation, 
that would mean that Snape was in love with the cousin of Sirius Black, who 
helped make his life miserable all through Hogwarts ...


Janet Anderson

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