Narcissa Malfoy - mean or nice?
 

Throught the books Narcissa isn't really definded if she follows in the footsteps of Lucius and Muggle hating (or maybe i didn't notice)

in the 6th book she is more concerned with Draco's saftey than him compleating the task set, even though Bellatrix thinks she should allow her son to die if needs be.

what do you think Narcissa Malfoy is Mean or Nice?

Narcissa was certainly snobby and elitist like her husband. And shared his disdain for Harry, Dumbledore, non pure-bloods, "mudbloods" (guh) and muggles. We see this best when she is in Diagon Alley, in Madam Malkins. But there are several glimpses throughout the books. I think she was certainly prejudice and held herself higher than most people.

However, I also do truly believe that she was a very loving and protective mother. Draco was a mummy's boy.

Hmm Narcissa was certainly an elitist, but then again she was brought up to believe those things and we never really are told why mudbloods are looked down upon but for all we know there could be a very good reason for it, well good reason to the purebloods at least.

However we do see that she cares greatly for her family, she is extremely protective of Draco and the first thing she asked Harry in DH was if her son was okay. This shows me that she is a loving person to those that are close to her, and that she is indifferent to those that have done nothing to impress her, I think that she like Lucius was a good parent. Yes I think that Lucius was a good parent.

Narcissa is protective over Draco in DH just as he was over her, but i just didn't see her as a muggle hater,

yes she was snobby and might have looked down her nose at some of the other wizards and witches but does JK Rowling ever have her mention that she is a muggle hater?

and i have to dissagree with you there Aimee i don't think that Lucius was a good father he was too concerned for Voldemort for Narcissa or Draco.

is she nice in that sense? (non muggle hater?)

Okay obviously I agree with Jo on that, however I stand by thinking that Lucius was a good father. He was worried about Draco at the end of DH and in the hall all of them were acting as a family, besides you never saw Lucius being outright abusive, there was never any mention of him actually abusing Draco, just of him being strict and by the way Draco acted and talked about his father it didn't seem as if he was a bad father and Draco seemed unhappy that Lucius was in Azkaban as if he missed his father. I think that when Draco was younger he would have been well taken care of by both his parents, Lucius didn't seem all too obsessed with getting Voldemort back did he? I think once Voldie was back at first things may have changed and in public he may have been cold towards his son however I believe in private the Malfoys were a different family. As if they could act how they wanted without public scrutiny.

However this is just my opinion. :)

Well, she's not as mean as some characters and all her snobby, elitist ideas would have been drummed into her at a young age. She clearly cares about Draco and Lucius, but mean people can love too.

I don't think she's completely mean, just stuck in a situation that calls for a mean exterior.

I don't think she's mean, nor do I think she's nice. She obviously cares a LOT for her son as you find out in the 7th book, and she's kinda snobby but I wouldn't consider it mean. Yeah, she kinda thinks she's better than you, but never did she do many "bad" things.

Someone's peacemaker is someone else's enemy.
It depends on the eye of the beholder, hm?

To some, Narcissa may have been overly nice, pampering her son and protecting him in so many different ways. She also recognized when to put herself aside, like in DH, that she did not say the truth about Harry being dead, and she does go out of her way to protect him. To Draco, she's nice.

But you think of all those people she's put down, and her opinion of a lower class or caste, of the people who just see her as being married to one very evil, evil man, and they think she's mean.

You can't be one or the other, in my opinion. She's a devoted mother, which is certainly a high plus on her side, but she has glitches she needs to sort out before being considered an utterly nice character. I don't think she's utterly mean either, she's just, like everyone, committed certain lapses in judgement.

Exactly what I was going to say. I don't think Narcissa ever intended to be as mixed up with the whole Death Eaters business as her husband and son. All that seemed to matter to her was the safety of her family.

She is a confusing character, she can certainly be mean and snobby liker her husband and son. She really doesn't want to be a death eater, and she isn't. She just follows her husband. And she showed that she is caring because of her devotion to Draco, and by lying to Voldemort; saying Harry was dead. If she had the choice to follow Voldemort, or to live a normal familt life; she would most likely choose the family life. I think she is mean, to others who aren't of her blood status, but she isn't really, extremely mean; and certainly not evil.

I dont think she was nice or mean. Once we got a better view into her character, it seemed that her main concern was the safety of her son and husband. At certain points in the story, it seemed that she really could have cared less which side won.
In DH she went along with Harry faking his death so she could get back into the castle to make sure Draco was safe.
But does this make her nice? No I dont think so, but is she mean? Not really.
Its a pretty tough call. :P

I think nacissa is nicer than the rest of the malfoys, she cared about draco which shows atleast she cares and theres more to her than the evil...that is in my opinion.

I think that Narcissa was snobby, racist and unpleasant like her husband and son, but she was not evil. I think she doesn't set out to be evil, or good, she just wants to protect her son. She threatened Harry when Harry pointed his wand at Draco, which makes it look like she'd only be hostile if she needed to protect her son.

Like most of the posts in here, I think Narcissa was a morally bad person in that she was elitist, snobby, and quite unpleasant to be around.
However, when it came to mothering, though she may not teach her son in a morally correct fashion, she'll certainly do anything to make sure Draco stays safe. That alone makes her an excellent mother.

Nice. I think she's just a product of how she was brought up. Not that would give her an excuse to act any certain way, but the way parents bring up their children affect the way they turn out.

I agree with pottergrl5. if she hadnt been brought up the way she had been, so privileged and meant to believe she and every other pureblood was above the rest of the wizarding community then she could have turned out nice.
However i do think that at her core she just wants a family and that really shows in Deathly Hallows when she and her husband betray Voldmort to look for Draco.

i aggree with a lot of people that she is snobby, unpleasent, and racist (of couse isn't every dark pureblood?) but being a mother she is great at. that's the only light i see in her though.

and can i just say that in HBP they made her look really old. she should've looked like lucius except a female version

Narcissa is not mean, but she is very snobby like her husband who dislikes muggles and poor people like Weasly's family. Narcissa is definetely a good mother, she is very protective of her son Draco, and she was begging Snape for protection of Draco in Hogwarts. I can see that she is willing to do anything for her son to be alive and great.

i think she is just prejudice against muggleborns and muggles i think shes only supprting voldemort out of fear just like draco because if she really supported voldemort she would be more like bellatrix who would do anything for voldemort

I believe that Narcissa is a normal human being who was raised to elitist beliefs. As Sirius states, no being is all good or bad--but are instead a mixture of the two. Narcissa does what is best for herself and her family. She believes that muggle-borns are of lower class, but does not bear the dark mark. When her son is in danger of death, she defies 'her master' (although she is not a death eater...or I'm not aware that she's a death eater) by asking Snape to keep him safe. She again defies her master saving Harry's life. I do not believe she saved Harry's life because she felt any sort of pitty for him. No, because as it states in the book she knew the only way to see her Draco was to go back to the castle and fight--which would only happen if Harry was indeed dead. I believe she also knew that if she risked Harry's life again by saying he was alive--her family would suffer a consiquence in the long run. Her family was already in peril. It was just a matter of time before the Dark Lord killed off her family.

I think Narcissa just cares for her family the most, and to bloody hell with the rest.
So there is no definition to whether she is mean or nice, she is just she, and she is a mother.

Being a Black, it wasn't like Narcissa could quite be nice. But if she was mean she wouldn't exactly be a very good wife and mother, and she was exactly that. She truly cared for Lucius and Draco. Then again, this could have been because she was selfish...

i think that on the surface she was snobby to a point and she and her husband sided with voldemort, but she was never officially a death eater, and she was angry at voldemort for making her son do something that he could have died doing. i think that that was the last straw with her. i think she still pretended to side with voldemort to keep her family safe, but from that point on, she had lost faith and admiration in him. she really proves my point when she helped harry fake his death, instead of giving him away to voldemort, she asked him if her son was still alive, when harry whispered yes, she decided to forget about voldemort and do what she could for her son. there was always good in her.

I think that Narcissa is just a typical pureblood. She's a proud elitist and she only cares about her and her family's hides. Whether that makes her good or bad, it's what she is.

She was certainly prejudice but that doesn’t mean she like the idea of murder and torture. I got the feeling that she never really got to make any choices in her life, but started to show her authority after Lucius got out of Azkaban and was in no position to make the decisions. In the end though she was only out for her own family but can we really blame her for that?

I think that Narcissa is in between, at the same time, she cares for Malfoys safety. But then again, she hates the Muggle borns. But she also hates Harry. So she probably only cares for her loved ones safety, those who are closer to her. And, she doesn't like like mud-bloods, because she probably thinks of them as inferior. So I think that Narcissa Malfoy is in between, she can be caring and nice to her loved ones, but then again she can be mean and hate those who are below her in "blood".

I think Narcissa is in between but she did lie to the dark lord that Harry was really dead but she also HATES muggle-borns. But she really really cars about her family and purebloods

I agree with MuggleVampire.....She is in Between....
She hates Muggle borns but also she did LIE TO THE DARK LORD.....
and she just loves her family..

I think she has two sides to her.
one side is snobby because of her pure-bloodness but she was kind of forced to be that way from being with lucius.
there is also another side who really cares about her family especially her son

I agree with the most of you. I cannot say that Nacrissa is mean because of how she tries to protect Draco but she isn't nice because she is a death eater. However I think that's what all mothers do - protect their children.

i think that she had a softer side which is more than i can say for lucius

Yeah, I totally agree with you!
And I loved when in DH she helped Harry to save Draco!

hmm i think narcissa was bad 4 being with voldemort but when her son was put in danger becuz of the dark lord then i guess she regretted and wanted no realtion with him so she had a bad maybe dark past but we never though heard of her killing anyone she's a very good mother with a bad past. i like her fear for Draco:D few death eaters would care 4 their sons in my opinion

I think that Narcissa is a person who cares about her son above all else and she'll do whatever it is to protect him. Whether she's nice or mean, that seems too general to pick just one. I think she's very complicated!

that does make quite alot of sense.I think she is a good person, who made some awful desisions in her past.She is a good person, who's past intentions were bad, but when Draco *Yum* was in danger, she did exactly what every mother does, try to find a way to save her child and keep him(in Narcissa's case) safe and free from harm.So sorry if it made no sense at all!

Summary of what I just said:

she's a good person, who really cares about her son, willing to do anything to protect him from harm. But she has made some really bad choices in her life. :malfoy: :ronslug:

She's both.

She can be mean and hateful but she also really, truly loves her family. People aren't that simple, you can have many different aspects to your personality.

I believe that Narcissa can be defined as "mean". She was raised a pureblood and new nothing but pureblood beliefs so obviously she would take on those beliefs as her own. Obviously she feels that because she is pureblood, wealthy, and married to an extremely influential man, she is better than basically everyone in the wizarding world. One would think that this snobbish woman would make her a stand-offish, horrible mother-this is what I would have thought- but she actually dotes on Draco and goes agaisnt her master to make sure he is safe, which I think is sort of a partial (obviously not full) redemable act for her character.

I believe Narcissa is neither mean nor nice. She is just selfish, and introverted.

I don't think she really cares about anything except her family (which isn't necessarily a bad thing) but she will do bad things against other people to keep her family safe. But she isn't totally heartless either, when she lied about Harry being alive in DH she showed they she can sorta give back what she is given (if that makes any sense..).

Narcissa Malfoy is certainly snobby and cares much about her status in the social hierarchy; look at who her own family was: the Blacks. She married into a good, solid, respectable wizard family, and has notions and ideas not unlike our own English ways back in the days of the Royal Courts and such. It's not so much that she is mean or nice, it's more that she is using what she was raised to use to get ahead in life. And more often than not, her parents taught her that to get ahead you must crush everyone else in your path. So that is what she has done. Until her darling Draco gets bullied into serving the dark lord, and then all that goes out the window.

It takes a very special type of person to be able to look beyond what he or she has always known and to open his or her mind and heart to other possibilities. Narcissa is a product of her upbringing - nothing more, nothing less. She was taught to pride money, blood status, and family loyalty above all else, and did not have the temperament to ever question the importance of these things

Does that make her mean?

No one can deny, however, that she loved her son dearly. In the end, she cared for nothing more than the safety of Draco, and if that meant helping Harry Potter, than so be it. As mothers we would do anything to help protect our children regardless of the consequences. It is simply part of being a mother.

Does that make her nice?

she is just someone hidden under Lucius's shadow. She is neither nice or mean but a stuck up rich snob. But I love that about her.:jump:

I think that she is somewhere in between. Being a Black means that she was brought up to hate muggles, muggle-borns, and blood traitors. So Certainly she is a pure blood elitist. But on the other hand in the sixth book, she goes to see Snape about Draco's mission because she is worried that Draco was not going to complete his task and he would be killed. She was worried about her son. Just as any mother would be. In the seventh book, after Voldemort "killed" Harry he tells Narcissa to make sure he is dead. Somehow Narcissa knew that he was alive however she did not give him away. This may have been because Harry had saved Draco, but still she did not give Harry away. She told Voldemort that he was dead.

I have to admit that she is pretty cruel... but she is still too nice to be a Malfoy!!!she isn't cruel enough when she realizes that Draco wont kill Dumbledore... she goes to Snape, and makes him help Draco... THATS TOO NICE!! if she were a REAL Malfoy she would say "Screw it! I don't care if Draco dies! he was useless to begin with!"

yeahh from what i read in the books, she was a snob (but all the malfoys were) but it was obvious that she had a heart, i mean she was all protective when draco was supposed to kill dumbyy, but in her situation you couldnt be nice all the time either. :whale:

I don't think she mean nor nice. I think she's somewhere in between. Sure, she acts very snobbish to Harry and his friends, but she helps him near the end of the book. I think Narcissa helping Harry is the reason Harry had a chance to kill Voldemort. I think Narcissa asked Snape to help Draco because she's his mom, of course she would do that. So my answer to your question would be that Narcissa is somewhat between mean and nice. :slyth:

I really think Narcissa is neither nice nor mean. She's in-between.

She loves her son and husband, and someone who is completely mean or "evil" could not produce that amount of love. If given the chance she surely would have done what Lily did -- died to protect her son. It's a mother's instinct, and that doesn't make her mean.

However, she isn't really "nice" either. She despises muggle-borns, muggles, and blood-traitors. She believes she is superior, and overlooks everyone if they're below her blood status. She is snobby, stuck-up, and that makes her somewhat unlikeable.

She'll do anything to protect her family, and she'll be nice to other so long as it suits her/her family (Severus, Harry, etc.). When she helped Harry, though, it made me get a lot of respect for her, because while her husband was employed by Voldemort, she was unnerved, and subconsciously terrified of him and hated what he was making her son do. And at the end of DH, she's no longer on his side, and helps Harry. That may not make her on Harry's 'side' really, but it makes her in-between, like her being mean or nice.

So she can be both.

Wow..nice thought..and I definitely agree with you :D
She can be both "mean" and "nice" depends on the situations and the people

Although stuck up and snobby, I don't think that Narcissa was necessarily a 'bad' person. She clearly didn't like any of the Order members, or the 'good side' but she wasn't crazy about the Death Eaters or Voldemort either. I think the only people she cared about were Lucius and Draco, and to some extent, Bellatrix. Though as you see in the seventh book, Narcissa felt that Bellatrix had taken her insanity a little too far. So I don't think Narcissa was bad, just more interested in money, her blood purity, and her family than in anything else.

I don't think she is evil... I mean she is bad because she had to adapt to her husband's behaviour I guess, but that doesn't necessarily mean that she is as bad as him. She obviously cares about her son otherwise she wouldn't have asked Snape to take care of him. So, in conclusion, she is between good and bad :-?

I don't think she is evil but I think she has both a good and bad side to her. I think she was manipulated to see and agree with her husband, but I don't think she was really fully evil even when she was "changed" by her husband. I think she cared for the people close to her, of course Malfoy and at the end she did help Harry by lying to Voldy that Harry was dead, but at the same time, she could be kind of bad. So I agree with everyone when they say that she is in between good and bad. :)

I actually quite like Narcissa and believe that she is good. We know that she is a pure-blood wizard and has a very strict background and family where they thought that pure-blood families were as good as royal.

The idea that she hates muggles and muggle-borns comes from how she was brought up and her husband's views. I believe that she truly cares more for her family than the cause of Wizard Supremity. She may not like Dumbledore and she may be incredibly snobby but I believe she was doing what she thought was best for her family (to be able to live in a world where they do not have to hide who they are) however, we do see that she is very timid and does not seem to like having the Death Eaters' Headquarters in her home.

I believe that although she may have agreed with Voldemort's cause, she may have only joined to please her husband and family, she probably didn't want to be shunned away like her sister.

Overall, I believe Narcissa shows the struggle of being a mother and trying to help what you believe and we can see some sacrifices she makes to protect her family throughout the series. However, she can seem evil, and may be incredibly mean in parts of the books, but she reflects many people and shows why many people may have joined Voldemort's side.

Well like normal people, I think Narcissa Malfoy had different sides of here personality.

She's obviously the perfect "Malfoy Wife", pureblood, beautiful and harbor a disdain for mudbloods and muggles. but I think she's like that because that's how she was raised, being a member of The Most Noble House of Black, she was raised to hate those who associate with muggles, who she believes are way beneath her, and frankly I just don't see her acting any other way. its like trying to imagine Harry Potter without his hero complex!

But she certainly isn't pure evil, no one is pure evil, not even Voldy. Since she firmly attached to her belief that she is above the majority of people, then its natural for her to act snobbish towards them, and I think its also her form of defending herself. Narcissa Malfoy as a mother, well, let's just say a lot of kids would kill to get a mum like her. She goes to incredible lengths to protect her son, even lying to the dark lord.

So like I said before, Narcissa is a person. Mean to those she disdains and loving to those she cares deeply about.

Well I think she was a nice person she didn't seem to hate muggles or muggleborns like her husband I belive she married him because of her pureblood upbringing and her parents pushing her. And she never really wanted to serve Voldamort and she really loved Draco so I do think she was a good person.

I think she is a little both, mean and nice, but above all she is just a mom. In the 6th book she shows real concern for her son and dosen't want anything to happen to him, but she was raised a pure blood, married one, and wants to live the life she was brought up in, but I'm not sure she agrees with it all.

I think Narcissa is a very narrow-minded, egocentric and irrational person.

She obviously supported Voldemort's ideology and accepted murder, torture and oppression.

We all know that in the end she betrayed Voldemort, however, she only did this for Draco's sake.

Although she has proven her love and loyalty towards her family, she still remains a selfish and cruel person.

That's my opinion. ;D

I think Narcissa gets a bad rap as a " mean " person. She is a devoted wife and mother who has beliefs contrary to popular society. As a mother I can really relate to her concerns for her son and the status of their family in the wizarding community.
It reminds me of being a mafia wife in a way (not that I am one of course, I just watch a lot of gangster movies that's all).This wife's commitment to her husband no matter what awful things he's done is overwhelming. I don't know many " normal " wives that would stay with their husband while incarcerated.
I am sure though she share's in the many prejudice's that pure bloods have I have yet to see her instigate or encourage her son or husband to commit any bad deeds. When Draco is invited to become a Death Eater and assigned to kill Dumbledore Narcissa is terrified. As a mother she wants to keep her child safe and out of harms way. I am sure behind the scenes she nags Lucius of the danger he places himself in as well as the family when ever he is asked to do the Dark Lords bidding.
Narcissa mean, no. Narcissa nice, no. She is what she is called to be, a wife and mother living at the very top of a complex and prejudicial society.

I think that first and foremost, she is dedicated to being a good mother, which she is. In the end, she understood that her priority was her family; she was willing to do anything to protect them even if it meant being with people she disliked of thought herself to be above.

I totally agree with you. She doesn't seem like she followed in her husband or in Dracos footsteps as hating muggles. All she is made to be is a good mother. Especially the way she acted in the 7th book.. That there shows she is a good person and just wanted to make sure her family was okay. BUT maybe if she had more of a role in the series she might have shown more of the "I hate muggles" attitude like the rest of her family. Even tho Draco and Lucis (sp?) are both braggers and try to make themselves seem above everyone she kind of just hangs back and keeps quiet. And, correct me if I'm wrong, but she is the only one out of the 3 who isn't a Death Eater. So I would consider her a good person and a great mother. I mean she went out of her way and risked alot to ask Snape for help for her son Draco.

Well according to JK Rowling, the Malfoy family were not imprisoned due to the fact that Narcissa lied to Voldemort. Lying to Voldemort is quite a Brave thing to do, even if she did it for Draco. I think she is a good person overall, corrupted by her family (Bellatrix e.c.t)

I think that unlike her sister, Bellatrix or her fellow Death Eaters, Narcissa is probably the nicest. You don't see her do evil things, and you don't see her that "mean" as well. The reason that she shows this poker face is because she comes from the Black family. You know how the Blacks are. They're blood thirsty for power (except for Sirius of course). Then she's also a Malfoy. Malfoys are just rude but they're not that evil. hahaha... Probably, Narcissa grew up to be insensitive because of her family.

But the moment Draco becomes a Death Eater, i saw how she really evolved. She was a true mother. She's not mean at all. Especially when i read Deathly hallow, the dark lord ordered her to check if potter is already dead and she lied. She's a great mother.

I definitely think she believed many of the things that her husband and the rest of the Death Eaters did, until it started to harm her family.

And even then I'd argue that her core beliefs didn't change, just that the cost to attain those things became more real to her. And she was no longer interested in fighting for Voldemort's cause.

I think that Malfoy's were horrible gits (not to mention they mistreated Dobby) and Draco and Lucius should have gone to jail. but it's apparent the love they have for each other and for their son.

I wouldn't really call either of them bad parents per se. We see that narcissa dotes on him, sends him care packages, pleads with Snape to help him, lies to Voldemort so she can find him. Lucius also pleads for his son, we also see the instances of him being strict with Draco over his grades.

I will say, i was Team Narcissa in DH, b/c she was truly the rock of that family. Lucius is a broken man at that point, Draco doens't know what to do and she was holding them together during that meeting in their home. And then she told a bold faced lie to Voldy. i was proud of her

I don't think she's good or bad. She just follows what she was told. She was raised in a family of Muggle/Muggleborn-haters, so she must think she is right to think less of them.
Her action of lying to Voldemort isn't good or bad either, though it could be considered selfish, the only reason she did it was to know whether her son was still alive.
She can't be bad, because she never actively fought along the Death Eaters, as far as we know.

I actually think that she's nice because she wants to protect her son and make sure that he doesn't get on the wrong side of voldemort as lucius did on several occasions. She just wants the best for her family. In other words, she is similar to snape, because he isn't what voldemort thinks he is, and in the end, he turns out to be nice.

If Bellatrix hadn't have been Narcissa's sister and she instead only had Andromeda she would have been a great witch with healthy views. Narcissa was influenced by the wrong people in my opinion and for this I feel very sorry for her. As for Lucius, she should have gotten rid of him while she could. I think she deserved better than him and she should have lived her own life instead of being Lucius Malfoy's property. In my opinion she is a bit like Curley's Wife in 'Of Mice And Men' in the way that her husband ruled her life and influenced her to the point that she had to do the wrong thing. Curley's wife became very nasty and was snobby, just like Narcissa. At the end of Deathly Hallows I felt very sympathetic towards her as I realised she was a good person. Her heart became visible when she hoped her son was OK and she helped Harry escape. She is the mother that is so full of love that she would risk her life for her son; she was risking her life by lying to Voldemort. He or her sister could have killed her at any moment if they found out and this was very brave. My feelings for her completely changed.

Yeah, I agree. It all depends on how she was raised, I'm sure her parents had a great influence over her too. Had they been less focussed on the Pure-blood mania she could've been a great person.

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She's definitely a snob and I don't think she was nice per say. I just think she was motherly and cared for her family (particularly Draco who was mummys precious little boy). She definitely thought highly of herself and was rude to those she considered inferior. She wasn't nice but she wasn't a psychopath like Bella or Voldemort

I don't really think that Narcissa is a particularly 'nice' person. Mean? Yes, she looks down on muggle-borns and muggles etc but that I think is down to breeding and her social class.

What she comes across to as is a fiercely protective wife and mother. She is massively protective over Draco and prepared to defy the Dark Lord himself to protect her boy.

i personally think that Narcissa is a very loving mother. She cares the most about Draco and her Family and is willing enough to do anything for them. I think that is wonderful. I mean, yeah she's mean and is a proud pure-blood, but i think that it's normal for her to think that. In the last book, she spared harrys life just in hopes of finding draco in the castle.

in the end, mean and nice.

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.

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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. ;)