Mean. Not bad.

Easily led, not mean or bad, just easily led. The way a lot of Slytherin's seem to be.

Yeah I just think that she wants what's best for her family.

I think she cares about and is very protective of Draco because she loves him. She said that Harry was dead because she wanted to go into the castle to look for Draco, she didn't care who won the battle in the end.

She is the nicest out of all the death eatres, but she still believes in pure blood mania

Narcissa is family-oriented. she loves her family and is scared that if one of them does wrong, Voldemort would kill them.
in the last movie, when she asked Harry is Draco was still alive, you could see she felt relief. of course, she may think she is better than everybody... but she's just scared. along with the rest of her family. Draco is just like his mother... scared of Voldemort, but is semi-good at heart. they're just scared.
I think she's a great person; family first and that's what matters.

The thing I love about Narcissa is that when it comes down to it, she really just cares about her son and her husband. I think she's always been in this really poor environment, with most of her family believing that purebloods-are-a-higher-status-than-muggleborns, so she just grew up thinking like that. In the movies, she honestly doesn't strike me as a crazy-killer Death Eater like some are (hemhem, like her sister). I think if she would have been raised in a different environment, she would have turned out differently. Being a mother has definitely had its effects on her, because where do you think she would be if she didn't have Draco?

Definitely agree with Venomyz. I think she is basically a coward/fearful of Voldemort and once she found her escape route with her family she took it. Not that I blame her.

I would say she is neither mean nor nice, I think she is a product of her environment and has little original thoughts of her own - raised as a pure blood, and I think once she married Lucius, she adopted his beleifs as her own. I believe she was in full support of Voldemort's manifesto in the early days of his power, however whether or not she fully supported the extremes that he goes to, I'm not so sure. A part of me things that she beleives his methods to be far to extreme, but she has no courage to back out, she goes with the majority to keep herself, and her son safe - she only ran from voldemort and his regime, once she was safe from his wrath.
...all in all, i think she is more cowardly than anything else.

I think she cares for most things, but she is not evil. She may get mean, and be nice. In the books, they don't call her mean or nice. She has moments were she is both. Personaly I think he, because she cares alot about her family, and will probably do anything for them. I also think if she is being mean, it is only, because of what potion she is in, or because she really is mad at someone.

This is a good thread- i was thinking that the other day, I would say Mrs Malfoy is like Mrs Weasley but on another side maybe?? i think she serectly actually likes Harry but she dosnt want people to know as well as pretending he is dead.

It would have been nice if Narcissa had more scenes in the movies or even introducing her in the 2nd book??? she could have became a character we either love or hate??? But i think she nice n a hot looking mama to! lucky draco

I think that she did have a hatred for muggles, and muggle born wizards. However I think she valued her family over the destruction of muggles, she knew that if voldemort won then it's a good chance her family would have been killed eventually, so she said that Harry was dead because she knew that he could beat voldemort. So even though she was evil she loved and cared for her family enough to help Harry win.

She's a good woman because ultimately, her son comes first. She may not have the most likable personality, but her priotities are in order.

I believe that she is a women who will do what it takes to keep her family-mostly her son safe. although she went down the wrong path with the DE i believe she did what she had to do. I also believe that put in the same situation she would have saved her son much like lily did. if she was truly mean she would have given harry up but she made a choice to keep him alive. in the end she should be looked at by her final action of saving harry.

Nice. Although she was elitist and snobby - just like lucius. She never actually offically became a deatheater, which shows something, well, I think so anyway. And in the end she lied to voldemort and I saw that as protecting harry, I think her mothering instincts overrode everything in her life - and although she had some bad traits - definitely had some, she was nice. Well, I mean, compare her to her sadistic sister...

I can't help but think that her nastiness and prejuduce could be a facade for her husband. Even if she is really like that, it's easy to see she is good at heart, at least, as she would rather protect her family than Voldemort.

I warshipped Narcissa- she basically like the best!!!

I think deep down, Narcissa is just like Lily [Potter], just on the other side. She would do anything for her family, most importantly her son, even die for them if the situation called for it. She may or may not personally side with the Dark Lord, but that's not the point- her husband does, so she must, in order to keep her family together and keep Draco safe. I don't think it's a blind following though. She must have at one point agreed with his views on pure-bloods (being one herself), and/or realized how evil he is.

Her shining moment, in which she shows her strength, her intelligence, is when she lies to Voldemort that Harry is dead (all to help Draco). Which leads me to believe that she must've have been just as good at Occlumency as Snape to look Voldemort in the face and lie to him about something that important and he believe her. She really is a gifted witch, who does everything for her family, and in the end isn't that basically what we love most of the other witches in the series for?

Yes, she is a bit mean and snobby and prejudice but she did save Harry for her family. It shows that she may have a nice side but I would believe it would only show when she is really trying to protect her family.

I believe that she could have been a nice person but her family was all for the dark side.

I think that while she was married to a death eater and obviously brought up in a family that strongly believed in blood purity, she wasn't a bad person really. She never took the dark mark herself, and she was so worried about Draco when Voldemort gave him his mission. I always thought that she never really cared much about Lucius because maybe she had been forced to marry him to keep the blood line pure, but just the way she looked at him when they were sitting at the table and he had to give Voldemort his wand, just showed how much she loved him too. So purely based on the fact she was capable to love, whereas most of the other death eaters were not, she was a realively good person, who just got caught up with the bad crowd really.

I don't think she was mean. She grew up in an environment where "muggle hating" and the a like was considered normal.

However, I do believe she is a caring mother at heart. I don't think the Malfoy family are bad deep down as Bellatrix is. They are just cowards... Afraid to stand up for themselves for what they believe is right.

Although Narcissa is definitely a mean, muggle/mudblood hating, pure blood loving witch, i think that she sort of has her heart in the right place, because she cared more about Draco's safety than success in doing the dark lords bidding

i think she is nice but i am not too sure

I don't think she's evil. I just think she has some messed up ideas, but that can be attributed to her upbringing. In the end, I think she she has some good inside her, as she cares for her son, and she did not tell Voldemort that Harry was still alive. It takes guts to lie to Voldemort.