Narcissa: She’s beauty, she’s grace… She made a mistake…Narcissa Black certainly wasn’t good; she fell in with a bad crowd, she was haughty, cold and not afraid to be cruel. But she wasn’t all bad either.
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While neither she nor Voldemort thinks of it as such, Narcissa’s capacity for love, and her love for Draco are a strength. The fact that her love for her son outweighs her loyalty to Voldemort demonstrates how even within Voldemort’s inner circles, love is still the force that causes his ultimate downfall. Narcissa’s love for her son, possibly equivalent to Lily’s love for Harry, gives her the ability to lie to Voldemort that Harry is dead, despite what Harry feels is a quite visible pulse. Narcissa here exhibits the exact type of love Voldemort never understood. This type of love caused his downfall 17 years ago, and it is the cause of his downfall in the final book.