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

[Stephanie]

No: HPFGUIDX 102457

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Jen Reese" <stevejjen at e...> 
wrote:
> 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

Steph here:
I always saw Narcissa as a Pansy Parkison type of character.  A 
slytherin for sure.
But if you recall in book 5 (excuse me for paraphrasing) all of the 
Black family believed in what Voldemort was doing (full supporters), 
but didn't they get a bit scared when Voldemort killed a Black 
family member (serius's brother?)....
Supporting him out of fear...I think that's how we might see 
Narcissa change for the good...out of protection for her son...
What do you think?
Cheers,
Stephanie