Speculating about Narcissa. Wwas: Did Lily have any girl friends?

[Jen Reese]

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Mandy:
> Speculating that Narcissa was actually more like Andromeda than 
> Bellatrix in school, and that Narcissa was in Gryffindor and not 
> Slytherin, and who was friends with both pure and non pure bloods, 
> and then turned her back on them all when she married. Either by 
> choice or not, is more interesting to me than believing she was 
just 
> born bad and stayed bad her whole life. Where's the struggle in 
> that?  Mixing the bag up a little, and going against what I would 
> consider the obvious choice is a little more fun.  


Jen: It's a possibility, but I doubt Lucius would be attracted to 
her if she was so open-minded. He needs someone who thinks like he 
does to further his goals. I don't perceive Narcissa as being born 
bad so much as being surrounded by mostly-prejudiced people her 
whole life. 

OTOH, maybe Lucius was attracted to her for her ideaological 
differences, then he wore her down. Their marriage could be on the 
rocks and she wants out, but can't leave him for all those reasons 
people stay together. We are going to see more of Narcissa now, as 
JKR told us in the BookDay chat.

It seems more likely, with the available evidence, that Andromeda 
would have known and possibly been friends with Lily. As Sirius' 
favorite cousin and around the general age of the Marauders, the 
group likely would have met her. Her ideaology would be more similar 
to members of the Order if she married a Muggle. 

I'd really like to know more about Andromeda. All we have is the 
passing mentions of her in OOTP, enough to assume she's alive since 
no one tells us otherwise. Tonks speaks of her in the present-tense, 
anyway. She could be in there only to expand on Sirius' story, show 
what his family was like, blasting people off the tapestry for any 
number of offenses! I hope not though. Someone has to come forward 
to give us info on Lily and here's my short-list:

Andromeda
Hestia Jones
Lupin
Alice (after her miraculous recovery, now that Lucius is in Azkaban 
and can't drug her <beg>)


Jen Reese