The Blacks, after the fall (was: Re: Harry's reasoning regarding Narcissa's lie is faulty)

[Aesha Williams]

No: HPFGUIDX 178130

Carol said:

 

>I don't consider Narcissa to be a "good Slytherin" (unlike Andromeda,
>who risked and lost a great deal supporting the anti-Voldemort side),
>but she's better than the irredeemably evil Bellatrix. I imagine the
>elder Malfoys slipping back into something like the life they led
>before Voldemort's second rise to power, but without their former
>influence. Maybe Narcissa inherited Bellatirx's wealth (assuming that
>Rodolphus and Rabastan were dead). What they did all day, sitting
>around like a pair of dragons on their pile of gold, we're left to
>imagine. It must have been a boring and unproductive life.

 

My turn:


Your post made me think about something I hadn't really considered before.
You mentioned Andromeda, the black sheep of the trio of Black sisters.
Bellatrix, of course, would never have forgiven Andromeda, and probably
would have gone to just as much (if not more) trouble to kill her as Tonks.

 

I'm curious what happened after everything. Narcissa seems to realize there
are hings more important than doing the Dark Lord's bidding. I wonder if she
ever spoke to Andromeda again, or if she never really had a change of heart
about the pure-blood thing - was it just her son she wanted to save? I
wonder about the dynamic between the Weasley, Malfoy, and Tonks families,
knowing that Bellatrix was murdered by Molly Weasley. If Narcissa never came
around and asked her older sister's forgiveness, did Draco?.... In the
Epilogue, when he and Harry acknowledge one another, I feel more that Draco
feels shame more than a separation from Harry & Ron because of discordant
beliefs about the superiority of purebloods.

 

 

Aesha



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