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Why isn't Narcissa Malfoy a DE?, If Bellatrix is, why not her? |
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  Apr 14 2005, 10:04 PM
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I've always wondered why isn't Narcissa a DE? Her sister Bellatrix is, so it's not really a boys club. If she were a DE wouldn't she have been mentioned during DE role call with LV in GoF? I thought at first it was Lucius not wanting his wife to get her hands dirty, but I wonder why is it ok for Bellatrix and not her? If this is something Lucius really believes in then wouldn't he be proud to have his wife be a DE? I wonder if maybe she is the type who is for pure-bloods, but not really for all the killing. She did tell her husband what Kreacher told her.
I know JKR said we'd see more of her in book 6, I'm just wonder what the deal is with her. Maybe she's not as evil as her husband, maybe she even fears him. Since Draco has always appeared to be kinda a mama's boy, it makes me think that she has to have some tenderness and compassion. :ponder:
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Apr 15 2005, 04:52 AM
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Yes - look also at the scene with Draco at the QWC:
QUOTE ‘Where’re your parents?’ said Harry, his temper rising. ‘Out there wearing masks, are they?’
Malfoy turned his face to Harry, still smiling. ‘Well… if they were, I wouldn’t be likely to tell you, would I, Potter?’ (GoF9)
And then we know that Lucius was one of the ones wearing masks:
QUOTE '... Yet you never tried to find me, Lucius... your exploits at the Quidditch World Cup were fun...' (GoF33)
It's certainly not categoric, but one could imply that she is.
On the other hand, why would LV address Lucius but not Narcissa? Unless he thought that telling the man was telling the man's wife (a bit mysoginistic, but isn't that what LV can be?)
But, if they were together, shouldn't they have been next to each other? Like the Lestranges:
QUOTE 'The Lestranges should stand here...' (GoF33)
And yet there is no space for Narcissa to be next to him:
QUOTE Voldemort now approached the man on Wormtail's right.
'Lucius...'(GoF33)
QUOTE ... the space... which separated Malfoy and the next man [Lestranges]... (GoF)
So this somewhat disproves my above argument as to why she could be one! 
As for why she isn't, some suggestions:- Husband won't let her - don't forget, that at the time, Malfoy would have been wanting an heir, so no good ruining the woman.
- LV wouldn't have let her - but then, we argue, Bellatrix. IMO, Bellatrix is an exception - everyone else is male. Bellatrix must have done something dramatic to warrant LV's attention, and Narcissa wouldn't have done that.
- Narcissa didn't want to - she wanted to have children, an heir, look after her baby (she would need to do this at the end), didn't want her arm to have some ugly big tattoo.
- She came from the Black family, who although supportive, weren't wholly active. Maybe that is the stance she took?
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