If Bellatrix managed to muster affection for anyone other than Voldemort, it was her younger sister (even at the height of the Second Wizarding War, Bellatrix and Narcissa called each other Cissy and Bella, no doubt childhood nicknames they’d given each other). Narcissa, the youngest of all three, made a respectable marriage after graduating Hogwarts, and into another pure-blood family. It was Lucius Malfoy, a Death Eater, who brought Narcissa into the darker side of the wizarding world – but tellingly, Narcissa never became a Death Eater herself.

And although Narcissa wasn’t exactly the warmest of characters (Harry often likened her to looking like she had ‘dung under her nose’), she did harbour a fierce maternal love for her son, Draco. After all, it was Narcissa who wished for Draco to attend Hogwarts rather than Durmstrang so that he might be closer to home, and it was this same love that made her defy and lie to Lord Voldemort, leading to his downfall. Convinced of her family’s superiority, but not bold or cruel enough to lose herself to it completely, Narcissa was loyal to her own child instead, and walked the middle path of the Noble and Most Ancient House of Black.