[MarkL]

She must have been a hell of an Occlumens, like Snape, if you think about it. Within a second of speaking with the very much alive HP, she turns around and lies to LV. It's been stressed a number of times how LV could almost always detect a lie--"The Dark Lord always knows!"

Remember from HBP, where Snape tells Draco that it seems his mother's been teaching him oclumency, since he couldn't break into Draco's mind?

Mark

[grellis]

Actually, it was Bellatrix who taught Draco Occlumency. I don’t think any talent of Narcissa’a really mattered at that point, though—as a lot of freepers have since pointed out, Voldemort heard exactly what he wanted to hear.