Motherly Love a good thing? (was:Re: Moral Relativism (was:Re: witches of the world...

[Kayla Pittillo]

No: HPFGUIDX 160988

I am going to venture to say that Cissy's motherly love for Draco makes her worse than Lucius and Voldemort. Here's my position:

In real life there is a mother with 3 sons, whom she loves dearly and wouldn't dream of letting any harm visit upon them. Last year there was a series of nasty hurricanes in the Gulf of Mexico, in which hundreds of thousands of lives were shattered. 

What did this mother do in  reaction to this? Why she found a secure place for two of her sons, her husband and herself. Decent motherly instinct you say?  I say no; she also tried to make sure "lesser" people were sent off away from her family to "keep them safe". Want to know her publicly made reason for that? She didn't want to ruin her "beautiful mind" with images of the disenfranchised and homeless.
    
As I see it Narcissa is not much different than that mother. Motherly love to me is not an excuse to consider a woman better or more worthy than a man. All too often it's a cause of suffering when only those children who were born of their mother are the only ones their  mother gives consideration to or are allowed to live. 
Why should motherly love be considered a good thing when the mother is willing to kill other mother's sons simply to achieve power for her own son?

I don't see that as a good thing in that context, and I feel reasonably sure that Narcissa Malfoy would do anything to make sure Draco is both safe AND in a position of power, or at least able to lord it over "lesser" people.

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Hestia Lurkwell