I don't usually f'lock but I've done so for a few things since DH since I disliked it so much. (Which probably amounts to all of 2 f'locked entries or something!)
Since the last thing JKR wanted was to make us identify too much with, let alone admire, Malfoys, if would have been very surprised, had she written anything like that.
Yup, exactly. I don't think she admires or identifies with them consciously either, so it probably never crossed her mind.
It was very foolish, if you think about it for a moment. Iirc, she lied only since she wanted to find out quicker whether Draco was alive & in case he was to protect him.
Yes, it is a rather odd choice. Harry says she knows the only way she'll get in is at the head of a victorious army. But it's not like if she says "He's alive" that would be ruined, is it? I guess if Voldemort tried to use the Elder Wand it would just not work, but if he slit his throat or something she would have been victorious. Maybe Narcissa was just very impatient to get inside.:-) But yeah, maybe she figured she could just say Harry was died and came back to life...but my guess is had Voldemort won the Malfoys might have been killed just for that. Which might be said to be brave, except that it's not like getting killed was part of her plan. She wasn't intentionally sacrificing herself.
The problem is I can't imagine alternative storyline for Malfoys. Switching to D's side? Running away from both V and the Order? Out of their own house? None of it seems believable. They seem completely trapped to me.
I expected Draco, as the Malfoy who is actually anti-murder etc., to do something not heroic but decisively for the right side, within his limits. Instead after a scene that seems set up to show us that Draco's more sympathetic to Harry now, we get the RoR scene where I personally have to fanwank a lot of stuff to explain to myself just what he's doing and why.
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Since the last thing JKR wanted was to make us identify too much with, let alone admire, Malfoys, if would have been very surprised, had she written anything like that.
Yup, exactly. I don't think she admires or identifies with them consciously either, so it probably never crossed her mind.
It was very foolish, if you think about it for a moment. Iirc, she lied only since she wanted to find out quicker whether Draco was alive & in case he was to protect him.
Yes, it is a rather odd choice. Harry says she knows the only way she'll get in is at the head of a victorious army. But it's not like if she says "He's alive" that would be ruined, is it? I guess if Voldemort tried to use the Elder Wand it would just not work, but if he slit his throat or something she would have been victorious. Maybe Narcissa was just very impatient to get inside.:-) But yeah, maybe she figured she could just say Harry was died and came back to life...but my guess is had Voldemort won the Malfoys might have been killed just for that. Which might be said to be brave, except that it's not like getting killed was part of her plan. She wasn't intentionally sacrificing herself.
The problem is I can't imagine alternative storyline for Malfoys. Switching to D's side? Running away from both V and the Order? Out of their own house? None of it seems believable. They seem completely trapped to me.
I expected Draco, as the Malfoy who is actually anti-murder etc., to do something not heroic but decisively for the right side, within his limits. Instead after a scene that seems set up to show us that Draco's more sympathetic to Harry now, we get the RoR scene where I personally have to fanwank a lot of stuff to explain to myself just what he's doing and why.