| lieblich @ 2003-04-27 03:01:00 |
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Mood: pensive
Hi, new poster here.
I hope nobody else has pointed this out yet, if they have I'm really sorry for making a new post about it, but is anybody else a little shocked that while her son is being alienated by the whole school, Narcissa is off getting drunk and having a jolly old time with the likes of Colin Creevey and Seamus Finnigan, the same people who were attacking him last night?
Some attentive mother she is...
Comments:
| bookofjude @ April 27 2003, 01:03:06 UTC |
Am new here too, and it does seem a lil' strange... but huh. I don't know the characters very well.
(parent)| vellum @ April 27 2003, 01:06:37 UTC |
hey, you. you're gonna get to know them. you're gonna love them. ;) barely a month and here i am, at one am, refreshing.
| bookofjude @ April 27 2003, 01:08:03 UTC |
I know. *wibbles over it* Only started reading last nigth... *continues wibbling*
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Anonymous @ April 27 2003, 01:07:22 UTC |
Correct me if I'm wrong but she is at a party with a large amount of people who are there for REMUS. She didn't state that she was hanging around with Dean and Seamus, merely that they were performing karaoke. Colin, on the other hand, apparently was trying to take her drink.
I don't see that as consorting and yukking it up with people who attacked her son.
| nattish @ April 27 2003, 01:05:53 UTC |
It seems, by lack of posters on her board and my own assumptions, that most every one else is off getting drunk and having a swell time too. And she is clearly too drunk to care about her company. ...I don't find it odd really, I find it refreshing that Narcissa is letting loose.
(parent)| hunin_munin @ April 27 2003, 01:13:03 UTC |
Oh, that icon. I'm glad I'm not the only one who thinks Silverchair's singer looks like a Malfoy.
(parent)| nattish @ April 27 2003, 01:21:10 UTC |
Ah! *glances about guiltily for posting off topic* It is not often when I come across another who agrees! Yes, Daniel Johns is indeed Draco Malfoy.
(parent)| nightshade24 @ April 27 2003, 13:44:37 UTC |
Whoo hoo! We have found yet another one who sees the resemblance.
I say we party.
After reading NA of course. *wibbles and mourns for J_H and PS*
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Anonymous @ April 27 2003, 01:15:32 UTC |
1. The party has been planned for awhile, and it is not for her, but for Remus.
2. Draco alienated himself. He is not a simple poor victim. He said some very nasty things that ending up offending people. He then continued to be unrepentingly nasty to all, including teachers.
3. Narcissa attempted to talk with him at the time.
http://www.livejournal.com/users/potters
She now claims Draco is ignoring her.
I think he has hurt her feelings and she is dealing with it in this way. True, most parents deal with the hurtful shit that teens say to them and soldier on, but I don't think Narcissa has ever had anything but sweetness and light from her angel, and so has no clue about how to handle this and no "teenager-comment" skin built up.
| lieblich @ April 27 2003, 01:23:24 UTC |
Hi! I see what your saying. My point was that, think how that must look to Draco--he's all alone, he's been shunned by the whole castle, and now his *mother* is off just having a party and making a point to mention the one person who's been steadfastly attacking him for weeks now. In Draco's eyes how hurtful would that be? --its like she's going out of her way to surround herself with Gryffindors and people who normally are his worst enemies.
Hurt feelings or not if there were ever a time she could start being MORE attentive to her son I would think it would be now but instead she is being as careless as ever. I don't really blame that on the alcohol, I just think it is perfectly in character for Narcissa, and disappointing.
| nattish @ April 27 2003, 01:28:24 UTC |
But IS Draco "all alone"? I don't understand where Draco is at the moment. He could very well be somewhere laughing it up with Pansy, or his father or--God, I wish--Harry. Of course, Lucius is supposedly off somewhere with Lupin having a duel for a reason of which I am also unclear....
(parent)| hermione_like @ April 27 2003, 01:30:05 UTC |
Considering all the detentions he has to get ready for, and the early meeting with Lucius tomorrow, I'm sure Draco's asleep right now. ;)
(parent)| tarie @ April 27 2003, 01:34:35 UTC |
The meeting with his parents happened this morning. Narcissa talks about it in both posts she made earlier in the day (excluding the drunk party one.)
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Anonymous @ April 27 2003, 01:44:47 UTC |
I see what you're saying, but what do you want her to do? Ditch Remus' bachelor party, and go to sit with her 16-year-son--who is giving her the sullen and bitchy treatment--at his boarding school and hold his hand because people are pissed at him after he acted like a prat?
Well perhaps that would be nice, actually...
and Draco has never really been ashamed of his dependence on his parents, even at an age when most kids are trying to pretend they don't exist.
I agree that Draco needs some better parenting, and if Narcissa was supermom, maybe she would be there with cookies and advice no matter what... gently tell him what went wrong and how he can go on from here... but that self-sacrifice isn't really her character.
And somehow, I don't begrudge Narcissa her night of fun. After all, I don't think even Mrs. Weasley visited Ron the night after he went ballistic. And it is pretty late. Draco is probably asleep anyway.
| sheron @ April 27 2003, 09:44:21 UTC |
I think he has hurt her feelings and she is dealing with it in this way. True, most parents deal with the hurtful shit that teens say to them and soldier on, but I don't think Narcissa has ever had anything but sweetness and light from her angel, and so has no clue about how to handle this and no "teenager-comment" skin built up.
I love this point.
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Anonymous @ April 27 2003, 15:09:00 UTC |
He has hurt her feelings, so she is dealing with it by spitefully mentioning that she is spending time with people who hurt him. I'm a mother, and no matter how much my child had hurt my feelings, I would never sit around drinking with the people who had lashed out at him in the first place. Have a good time, yes. Don't make a post to livejournal to rub it in his face. Considering that it was Colin, after all, who made Draco angry at Narcissa in the first place. And it was Narcissa who told Draco how disappointing he was, when she is the one who told him to hate homosexuality in the first place. If the character wants to be a Gryffindor now, that's great, but I doubt Draco will be coming along with her.
(parent)| bookofjude @ April 27 2003, 02:06:28 UTC |
At least she's sensible enough not to give him alcohol. *blinks*
(parent)| sistermagpie @ April 27 2003, 09:42:39 UTC |
Of course I'm not surprised--I'm sure it wouldn't occur to her to do otherwise. She planned it. She did her duty parenting this morning so probably needs to unwind even more.
It doesn't make me angry that she's at the party, but yeah, of course it's important that she's there with the people who hurt Draco. (Colin remember. Colin of the "Your parents don't love you."). It's just...yeah, this is who she is.
I do have to laugh at the idea that she "tried to talk to him" and he just cut her down. Draco brought up her not even knowing how old he was, Narcissa seemed to think it unreasonable that he expect her to remember such a thing or find anything odd about it. He stopped commenting to her. What's the point? There's far too much anger on his part for reasonable conversation which sucks for her but if she's ready to be a parent now she needs to put on the flame retardant suit and get in there.
This is the beauty of Narcissa. She cares about Draco. She does not, however, consider his feelings from his own pov when she acts. Not that she should act to suit his wishes all the time at all. But yes, it's important that the few valid feelings Draco has (as opposed to him being bratty or demanding or unreasonable) haven't made it onto Narcissa's radar. She doesn't acknowledge them and doesn't want to talk about them. So yeah, it's not a crime that she's at this party, but it gives us some information that jibes with what we know about her.
Let's put it this way, if Draco was at a party this night, Remus would not stay there with him. Draco would not be welcome at his party. Remus would not make slurry comments for Draco to read like, "OY! Handsfa offaf my drink, Drraco-" because Draco had hurt Harry's feelings.