Narcissa has survived a lot by being the obedient and well behaved daughter, following the rules and avoiding standing out, but she will do anything to protect her son.
Draco is set to inherit the Black fortune until Narcissa discovers that Orion has been grooming her young son. She explodes on him and on her parents who stood by and let it happen, leaving behind the inheritance and her family with this monologue based on Penelope Scott’s ‘rat’.
I don’t need your goddamn money, I don’t need jack shit from you, so when I speak, you bet your life my words are true
Let me level with you, as someone guilty of the game, I took the help, I took the cash, I carried on your last name, so if anyone on earth should get to make a call about this, it should be me, and as I see it, you’re a dick
So fuck your pure blood, fuck your ‘nobility’, fuck your inbreeding, fuck your blood again, you promised I’d be different, then married me off like all of them, because Andromeda betrayed us, you couldn’t trust that I’d stand by? I can’t believe I followed your rules all those years, while being the ‘perfect daughter’ was tearing me apart.
And the worst part is I loved you through everything, I thought you loved me too, but now I can see that it’s not fucking true. I played the game that you set for me to win love you never gave. I’m so embarrassed, I feel so used