Timeline for Why did Narcissa think Harry knew if Draco was dead or alive?
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| Mar 20, 2016 at 17:19 | vote | accept | Darth Theory | ||
| Mar 14, 2016 at 1:48 | comment | added | Janus Bahs Jacquet | @HarryJohnston That's actually a very good point that I hadn't considered at all. Bellatrix is obviously not much of a Legilimens (at least not in the atrium of the Ministry—she doesn't recognise that Harry is telling the truth about the Prophecy shattering), but then Narcissa is very different from her sister, and she seems more the type who would be an accomplished Legilimens. | |
| Mar 13, 2016 at 21:25 | comment | added | Harry Johnston | @JanusBahsJacquet: Harry was never much of an Occlumens, even at the best of times. She may have been confident in her ability to tell if he was lying. | |
| Mar 12, 2016 at 18:32 | comment | added | Misha R | @ThruGog The moment she surreptitiously asks Harry about Draco is where we see direct evidence of her not being truly on Voldemort's side. We get no similar evidence with Draco's father. | |
| Mar 12, 2016 at 18:10 | comment | added | ThruGog | @Misha Rosnach - I think she is definitely already in "We made the wrong choice" mode since it became so clear that Voldemort's interest in her son was a punishment for her family and that his death was perfectly acceptable to Voldemort. | |
| Mar 11, 2016 at 10:13 | comment | added | Misha R | @JanusBahsJacquet Not sure I agree. To me, Narcissa stopping to ask Harry about Draco was a sign that she believed Harry would have made sure Draco didn't die unnecessarily. I took that show of trust as an implication that her heart was already not in Voldemort's war. We might never know for sure, but my guess is that she had been planning to let Harry escape either way. | |
| Mar 11, 2016 at 1:20 | comment | added | Vanja Vasiljevic | @JanusBahsJacquet It is implied from Dark Lord himself in conversion with Lucius “My Lord. . . please. . . my son. . . ” “If your son is dead, Lucius, it is not my fault. He did not come and join me, like the rest of the Slytherins. Perhaps he has decided to befriend Harry Potter?” “No—never,” whispered Malfoy. “You must hope not.” – | |
| Mar 11, 2016 at 0:55 | comment | added | Janus Bahs Jacquet | @Vanja What makes you say Voldemort thought Draco had defected? Is there something that implies this that I’m simply not remembering? Certainly, he cared little for Draco by this time, but is it ever implied that he believed Draco had joined Harry? | |
| Mar 11, 2016 at 0:52 | comment | added | Rand al'Thor♦ | @JanusBahsJacquet She was desperate, and clinging to any slight thread of hope she could find. She'd rather live in hope that he was telling the truth than convince herself rationally that there was no reason he should be. You say "an otherwise intelligent woman", but temporary loss of one's reasoning abilities when one's loved ones are in danger is ... not unknown. | |
| Mar 11, 2016 at 0:51 | comment | added | Vanja Vasiljevic | @JanusBahsJacquet Mothers love knows not bounds, as Lily proved it. Even if there was slightest chance that Draco was alive she had to take it. Also Dark Lord thought that Draco deflected and joined forces with Harry, if Dark Lord won it is no likely that Draco would be spared | |
| Mar 11, 2016 at 0:49 | comment | added | Janus Bahs Jacquet | Possibly a better question would be why she trusted his answer. Answering anything but yes would have been pure suicide for Harry, and even if he hadn’t had the faintest idea what, if anything, had happened to Draco, he would probably have said yes just to cling to any hope that he would not be given away immediately. Surely an otherwise intelligent woman like Narcissa (who must have done a lot of quick thinking in those few seconds when she was examining Harry) must have realised this. I don’t suppose distrusting him would make getting Draco back more likely, though… | |
| Mar 11, 2016 at 0:45 | history | answered | Rand al'Thor♦ | CC BY-SA 3.0 |