http://time.com/3644311/jk-rowling-h...-draco-malfoy/

J.K. Rowling gives fans Draco Malfoy's life story for Christmas

Weeks after Harry Potter fans were told a new Draco Malfoy story would appear online, JK Rowling has finally delivered the goods: and with it, her own thoughts about Harry's Hogwarts enemy.

The revelations come in the longest new piece of writing by Rowling to appear on the Potter publishing website, Pottermore, in months. Rowling admits that although she pities Draco, she finds the fact that female fans adore the villainous character troubling.

For more than a week, Pottermore has released one new scene from Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince every day. We’ve learned even more about the Potter universe, from Cokeworth, the town where Snape, Lily, and Petunia grew up, to J.K. Rowling's regret at killing minor character Florean Fortescue. But what fans really wanted is a juicy biography, like the one published for Dolores Umbridge.

Draco married Astoria Greengass (Rowling revealed this to TIME in 2007 when she was named to the TIME 100), who may have helped shape the bitter Slytherin into a better man. “As Astoria refused to raise their grandson Scorpius in the belief that Muggles were scum, family gatherings were fraught with tension,” Rowling writes.

After you answer the riddle about Malfoy, you get a new scene titled “Avada Kedavra,” involving Malfoy, Snape, and a bunch of Death Eaters right as (spoiler alert) Snape kills Albus Dumbledore. There’s not much to explore, so just hover your cursor on Malfoy to access the new information.

Some of the "new" Malfoy information will probably already be familiar to Potterheads. Born into a pure-blood family, Malfoy was raised from a young age to believe that he was special and that being a Malfoy meant something. He idolized his father, Lucius, and outwardly copied his manner. Harry quickly became his arch nemesis at Hogwarts, but really Draco envied Harry, who was admired by everyone and talented to boot.



But after Voldemort rose again, Draco started to doubt his father’s viewpoints, especially after the Malfoys fell from grace within the Death Eater ranks and people he was supposed to hate showed him kindness and pity. Although he never outright rebelled, his loyalty to Voldemort wavered. He was, unlike Harry, excellent at Occlumency.

Fans knew—or guessed—some of this already, but Rowling’s insight into Malfoy’s character gives the antagonist even more depth. Although he started out as the bully, his beliefs were shattered and his viewpoints went through a progressive change—something his wife, Astoria Greengrass, also experienced, but never to the extent that Malfoy did. They refused to raise this son Scorpius to believe that Muggles were scum, unlike how they had been raised.

What may be even more interesting is Rowling’s thoughts and deliberate decisions on the character, such as giving him a name that meant “dragon” but pairing him with a wand with a unicorn tail. And despite what some fans thought, he wasn’t “concealing a heart of gold under all that sneering prejudice." Rowling felt unnerved by just how many fans felt affection for him.

“I have often had cause to remark on how unnerved I have been by the number of girls who fell for this particular fictional character (although I do not discount the appeal of Tom Felton, who plays Draco brilliantly in the films and, ironically, is about the nicest person you could meet). Draco has all of the dark glamour of the anti-hero; girls are very apt to romanticise such people.”

But she, like some fans, imagined that Malfoy’s life got better as he became a more tolerant person—one who hopefully raised his son to be better—but still kept Dark artifacts in his home (and even explored some alchemical manuscripts).

And that’s all we can hope for.

YOU CAN READ THE STORY HERE

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SOURCES
http://www.dailydot.com/geek/draco-m...e-story/?fb=dd

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/h...ottermore.html

http://time.com/3644311/jk-rowling-h...-draco-malfoy/

Racist garbage.

the Queen calling out the fans romanticising this character especially because of some certain ships

I love when Rowling gets the fans in full meltdown over something when she writes lately over their fav character (check out certain tag on damn tumblr )

Ever since this bitch told us Dumbledore was gay AFTER all the books had come out I don't want anything to do with her. Why not include all that IN the novels, huh? Afraid you'd lose sales if you had Dumbledore tell Grindewald he loved him at any point? It's not like it would have ruined the plot or anything. Coward ass bitch.

I mean the Draco ships can be kind of realistic if the effort into making it as such is exerted, but the Snape ships are the ones that I will never understand.

also most IMPORTANT new information is that Narcissa didn't change at all after the last book.still hating the Muggles

that family got off easy so much in the books after everything

Rowling was asked about Dumbledore's love life by a fan after the last book got released.

and I'm sorry but Rowling saying in Deathly Hallows that Dumbledore is gay would not be important to the damn plot at all..since Rita SKEETER was the one wrote his bio and revealed that Dumbledore had a relationship with Grindewald and gave some hints that he cared a lot for a Dark Wizard, it would be tacky as hell that it was her to write that out that he was gay.since she usually writes also a lot of false s*it tho.

I read an article the day this Draco story was first posted about how the SJW (social justice warriors) of places like Tumblr were all up in arms about how diversity at Hogwarts. Like how sexuality and race and religion should have been more prominent or mentioned at all. It's just nuts how these 12 year olds want to be accepted for who they are yet want to place a label on everybody else. They think that matters. If you're an adult, sexuality and race don't matter to you unless you're a hate SPEW ing commentator on Fox news. It doesn't matter to me that I'm gay. My being gay doesn't dictate how I act, the friends I keep or what bar I go to.

I didn't know Lee Jordan was black or the Paravati twins were Indian until I saw the movies. And it didn't really matter what race any of them were because their race wasn't relevant to the story. Neither was Dumbledore's sexuality. Even if Albus was straight, he still could have been in love with Grindelwald. He found an equal in him, somebody he could relate to. That transcends sexual desires. The major underlying theme of Harry Potter is that love conquers all. Why would you feel the need to label that love gay or straight?

You need psychiatric help

Did you get this mad when she also said Pro. M was married and her husband died and there was a whole plotline but it wasn't relevant to the books so she never mentioned it.

EXACTLY

like Harry would be interested in McGonagall's love life when has far more things on his damn plate to even think about that.like how to destroy a mass murderer one day.

it's just not relevant to the plot.you would think Rowling updating their bios after the books have already ended would make people happy enough

I guess the Draco love has a lot to do with Tom Felton,because if he was played by someone else who wasn't attractive like Draco in the books,it would be way different.
what I don't get and will NEVER get the Snape love.Snape is a fascinating and very interesting character,but he was a TERRIBLE person.people acting like Snape wasn't a damn a**hole because of Deathly Hallow reveal is he got kicks for emotionally abusing children from every other house that wasn't Slytherin and joined terrorist group when he was very young and only changed sides because of Lily

Yes, she wanted to add a lot of details in the book but she was concerned that they weren't even going to be relevant in the plot. The Harry Potter series is perfect just the way they are for me.

now if she would only write a book about Hogwarts founders

Yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaas

Interesting read, I never looked at Draco this way

She better MILK Harry Potter

it would be epic and imagine the movie #not done by David Yates#