Did you know this about Draco Malfoy? #shorts #dracomalfoy #malfoy #slytherin #jkrowling

Read the caption: Did you know this intriguing fact about Draco Malfoy from the Harry Potter series? J.K. Rowling, the acclaimed author, has openly shared her astonishment and unease regarding the character's unexpected popularity among fans. She has often been puzzled by the fact that Draco, despite his flawed and often negative portrayal, has garnered a substantial fan base. Rowling believes that Tom Felton, the talented actor who brought Draco Malfoy to life in the films, has inadvertently influenced fans' perceptions by infusing the character with a certain charm and good looks that were not as explicit in the books.

Rowling has consistently emphasized that Draco Malfoy, as conceived in her books, is not a character deserving of admiration or emulation. Known for his cruelty and bigotry, Draco represented many of the darker aspects of the wizarding world, often targeting Harry Potter, Hermione Granger, and Ron Weasley with his scorn and malice. Rowling feels that Draco's negative traits are often overshadowed by the sympathetic portrayal by Felton, which added an unintended dimension of likability to the character.

In her detailed essay on Pottermore, Rowling delves deeper into Draco's character, highlighting that he was not hiding a heart of gold underneath his sneering and prejudice. She firmly states that Draco and Harry were never destined to be friends, debunking any fan theories about a potential hidden bond or camaraderie between the two. This revelation from Rowling might be surprising to many fans who have developed a fondness for Draco, perhaps seeing him as a misunderstood character rather than the true antagonist he was portrayed as in the books.

So, are you Team Malfoy? This insight into Draco’s character from Rowling herself sheds new light on how we interpret characters and their actions, showing the complexity of writing and character development in the Harry Potter universe. Would you have thought that Rowling had such views about one of her own characters, especially one as prominently known as Draco Malfoy?

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[damnthisisalongname_]

He’s relatable, and I find his story to be much more realistic, tangible, and *human.* He shows us that even if we make moral mistakes, even if we fuck up big time, we can still change and be good people later on. This, for me at least, is very inspiring.

[anhnguyen]

Hello?! He once saved the golden trio’s life

[itsellieeee]

He is literally “The boy who had no choice” like how could you not adore him?!? Although, he is soooo finee

[Lirin]

The fact that he changed his beliefs after the war shows that even assholes can change. To be honest, she gave him an awesome name, too.

[taecci]

Draco is actually a good partner to Astoria..as far as i know..he portrayed as a good father as well..

[Splashstar]

Draco was ALREADY A FAN FAVORITE BEFORE THE MOVIES CAME OUT.

Tom Felton had nothing to do with it. I myself didn't like Draco in the films until I read the books. Draco’s wand is unicorn core, which means that CANONICALLY deep down he's a good person. Draco’s wand was also Hawthorne which is for wizards who have inner turmoil but he obviously in the end chose the light side (unicorn core). In the books he was about to go all the way to the Light during the standoff w Dumbledore before Snape suddenly came out of nowhere and killed Dumbledore.

JKR contradicts herself quite a bit w her assessment of Draco’s character. Comparing Draco with James (Harry’s dad) who JKR puts on a pedestal: James actually hurt the kids he bullied as opposed to Draco who was usu all talk, and James planned an outright murder of another innocent student (one of his victims of bullying…), something Draco would never do. Sure there were accidental non-fatal casualties but those were ACCIDENTAL.

Like James became a nice guy only between the ages of 17-his death at 21. Draco became a nice guy saving Harry’s life on mult occasions by 17 as well– then Draco went on to do good work pro-bono because he was so rich he didnt require payment. Not to mention Draco stops Voldemort again at age 39 with Harry & co.

Oh, and side note: in HPCC (which jkr confirmed as canon), Draco and Harry become actual friends. Once again, contradicting her previous statement of how they could never be friends.

James never once showed remorse, unlike Draco. Instead Draco has been consistently shown to be very anti-violence. Notice in the books Draco is just all talk. Anytime he actually has to hurt anyone, he is VERY affected by it (in books, he couldn’t even kill a hostage they had at Malfoy Manor so Bellatrix had to do it).. and like how Dobby ended up getting harry hospitalized in an effort to send him home in CoS due to Voldemort threat, Draco was trying to do the same thing on the train ride at beginning of HBP. He was trying to get Harry to go back home bc he knew that was the yr he'd let in death eaters. So that's why he threw the cloak over Harry and told him “I don’t reckon they’ll find you till the train’s back in London. See you around, Potter … or not.”

Harry even commented on the way James treated Snape and said that he couldn't imagine any of the twins doing that to anyone (nor Draco). His dad did way worse bullying than Draco & his friends ever did. The only difference was that Draco’s family happened to be Death Eaters (like, the adult Draco would NEVER have joined ranks, as we see him adult at 39 yo in HPCC fighting against Voldemort). So why are we blaming him for the sins of his dad?

And in the books, underage 16 year old Draco’s reasoning was “I have to kill you or he'll kill my family” vs movies: “I have to kill you.. Or he’ll kill me.” HUGE difference.

He was literally a CHILD when he was given the impossible task of murdering Dumbledore and yet, even at the threat of death for his family and himself, he couldn’t do it. Not because he was a coward. He literally had Dumbledore at his mercy and he had no idea Harry was there (in the books, he was glued to the wall by Dumbledore’s magic). But because Draco was too GOOD to kill. Draco never once kills ANYONE despite living through the second Wizarding War as one of its key players. Don’t confuse goodness with cowardice.

So yeah, JKR just had this irrational hate for Draco, whilst simultaneously writing him with a complex backstory and good morals (deep down). She could’ve written him out like Fenrir Greyback or even Bellatrix, but she chose not to. And it’s her own fault for writing out Draco as this intelligent, skinny blonde bloke with “sunlight gleaming on his white-blond head” and “glittery grey eyes” and flirty “smirks” that make Harry immediately uneasy especially when Draco catches Harry staring, and oh god, Draco’s eyes tho, that Harry comments on incessantly in the books lol……………….. (yes the words in quotation marks is the wording harry uses… oh, and we dont even learn Ron’s eye color til the last book when it’s mentioned one time, same with Ginny’s eyes :V but harry’s been talking about draco’s eyes multiple times PER BOOK. like yes Harry, we get it. Draco has nice eyes XD telling us once is quite enough!!!! 😂)

But yeah, i did not like draco until i read the books, because suddenly, instead of seeing Draco the way the rest of the world sees him without Harry's inner monologue (the world sees him as a pompous arrogant snot-nosed cowardly bully— which was why i didnt like him), i now saw Draco through Harry’s eyes, and now I see that Draco is HOT (Harry literally almost gets hit by a bludger during Quidditch because he couldn’t stop staring at the other boy & harry stares at Draco ALL THE TIME even while draco is just eating his lunches all the way across the Great Hall (in the books, their tables are at opposite ends….)… well, they both stare at each other. Like how Harry noticed that Draco noticed that he only got mail from Hagrid over break even though Draco didnt mention it likE WTF)....

I suddenly felt sympathy for Draco that i didnt feel during the movies because Harry felt SO BAD and was worried about Draco, throwing Snape under the bus whilst not mentioning Draco’s involvement at all w Dumbledore’s death. :V And during the sectumsempra scene, in the books Harry threw himself on the ground by Draco’s body and was so distraught talking to himself so much that in his own thoughts, he said he did not even know what he was saying. After that, he completely backed off from going after Draco bc he’d almost killed Draco, even tho yes, now he for sure knew Draco was planning something. Planning what? He didn’t know. But hell if he would keep getting involved. (He literally stalked Draco all school year and backed off NOW that he had concrete proof at last?!)

And ofc he then immediately asks out Ginny as a trauma response, whom he literally never even thought about near the level of Draco (she honestly read like just a small crush in the books– i was expecting more tbh, at least near the levels of his crush on Cho). There’s a reason there’s a theory she used a love potion on him. His “infatuation” with her came literally out of the blue, and even then, he preferred to stalk Draco w zero hard evidence lol. It was pretty clear that JKR only made Ginny x Harry a thing to keep the Trio together….. In the first year that Ginny was finally on the team, "Harry, however, had never been less interested in Quidditch; he was rapidly becoming obsessed with Draco Malfoy." ~literal book quote Really. Okkk. JKR only has her damn self to blame.

I went into the books honestly hating Draco. I was one of those ppl who thought that Draco fangirls only liked him becos they thought he was hot (i didnt think he was hot at all– no offense Tom). But then after finishing all 7 books, i came out loving Draco becos Harry does. :’C And ppl STILL hate on me for liking Draco lol. Welp. All i can say is, HE WAS A FAN FAVORITE BEFORE THE MOVIES CAME OUT. AND NOW I KNOW WHY.

[JessyDupre]

She gave Draco a *redemption* arch. She portrayed his family as controlling and emotionally abusive. No one cares if Draco and Harry are friends or not as long as Draco learned from his family's mistakes and went on to be a better person. She herself said that he did not repeat his family's mistakes with their pureblood obsession and even raised his son to be a better man than he was.

Still can't believe that someone who wrote such a great series can be so dense sometimes.

[User-fng]

The fact that she practically said stop liking this character you’re only supposed to like Hermione, Ron and Harry👿 don’t care because this man is hot and maybe because my whole YouTube is Draco XY/n😂

Edit : i’ve never gotten so many likes❤

[bjorgduagumundsdottir]

There's more to him him then meets the eye❤

[Kourtneybugg]

The fact that she doesn’t want us to like Draco and only like certain characters need to stop bc we allowed to like who we like and there is no stopping up

[MadKlown]

Draco should have been written to join Harry Ron and Hermione. And each should have been written to be a complement to the four wizard houses of Hogwarts:

Harry is Griffyndor.
Hermione is Ravenclaw.
Ron is Hufflepuff.
Draco is Slytherin.

Ron should have had some scenes where he uses muggle enhanced items as that would have been cool.

Draco should have had a scene where the friends need to pay for something and he pulls out the Magical Express card. (Don’t leave home without it.) But seriously he should have a redemption arc where he gets to be of help and join them.

[LexiSoge]

Which is why I kinda like the movies better, bcs they add depth to malfoy! In the books malfoy is a stereotypical daddy’s boy who is absolute trash and just a plain old bully. However, there is always a reason someone becomes a bully, and even if that reason is bad, it’s still important. In the movies, Draco is seen as someone who was bad, yes, but most of the time because he didn’t really know any better. His dad sucked, and while his mother was way better, I think the family still definitely made him into who he was in the earlier movies. However, especially in the last three movies (but majorly the half blood prince) we see malfoy has changed. He realizes that what he has been dragged into is wrong, and the weight of that pushes him to the breaking point. Right before the super dramatic ending of Voldemort, all of the students have come out, and Draco with them. When he is called to join the death eaters, you can see in his face he no longer believes in what he has been taught his entire life. The problem is, it’s too late. The only reason he walks over to that side is because no one knows to want him on the good side, and because of his respect for his mother. Watching Draco go from a stuck up boy to a broken man realizing he made all the wrong choices that no longer feel right is what makes me love the movies so much

[ruturajshiralkar]

The Movie version of Draco Malfoy is actually a lot more likeable than his Book Counterpart. The Book Draco Malfoy is actually a Cruel Vile Individual while the Movie Draco Malfoy was just a common mild Bully. The Movie Draco was no where Nasty as his Book Counterpart.

[ruturajshiralkar]

Draco as a Character had a lot more potential to be something more, other than being just a Punching bag or a Victim of Circumstances. JKR messed up his redemption arc. When Draco was introduced early on in the series, he was set out to be Harry Potter's Rival / foil. The way he was written, it was clear that Draco was meant to rival Harry in Quidditch, Hermione in Academics and Ron, in regards to a family. But from the 3rd Book Onwards, Draco's character was progressively reduced to that of an arrogant Cowardly Bully, who ends up being a pawn or a punching bag in the greater scheme of things.

[Potterhead]

I think that Draco was cruel because of her parents

[kaityanik]

Honestly, it’s weird for a grown woman such as Rowling herself not to understand Draco’s popularity. When we were kids we thought the golden trio was great, but as adults, we see things from a different perspective. Even though the trio had it rough, they were raised to be good and pure at heart, they were what we now call “the absolute good”. But as we got older, we now know that there is no absolute good in the real world, there is no white and black, there are layers to every person, and even though we still love the trio, they aren’t as fascinating to look at, they’ve little to no layers to them. Draco is the character you want to study, to dig deep, to see all of his layers, everything he had to overcome. He is one of the very few HP characters that had it rough from the very beginning, misunderstood and unworthy of being considered good. He’s the one most adults can relate to, the only child who kept saying ‘My father will hear about this’ when something horrible was happening to children, he was the one to question the absolute admiration towards Harry for the soul reason that he was the boy who lived. He was the color of the book, not just white/black, but emerald green, a character that had his own story and his own evolution. We love Draco not just because he was Tom Felton, but because he is pretty much the only character that gave us hope that evil can be turned into something so much better. Excuse my mistakes, English isn’t my first language.

[pb-zr]

Draco didn't chose to be born in the Malfoy family but he did choose to lie to Bellatrix and his father despite knowing that it was Harry in the fight at Malfoy manor. He may not be purely good but everyone has a good and dark side into them and Draco's darkness was influenced by the family in which he was born. Just like Duddley, Draco wasn't evil by nature, it was the circumstances that made him the bully, we ended up hating so much.

[ruturajshiralkar]

The entire Harry Potter saga would've made a lot more sense if:-

1. Instead of a Golden Trio, there was a Hogwarts Quartet with Draco Malfoy (a Slytherin) being a part of it. In the final Battle, Draco actively fights Voldemort and later on plays a key role in rounding up death eaters. He also marries Hermione, thereby signifying the complete destruction of Voldemort's ideology.

2. Draco Malfoys begins questioning his beliefs from his 3rd year onwards, after getting punched by Hermione Granger and towards the end of his 6th year, Draco completely sides with the Order.

3. Draco was set up to be Voldemort's eventual (True) Successor. In the end both Draco and Harry team up to Destroy Voldemort.

[Vishakha_B]

Draco Malfoy deserved a PROPER redemption arc. JK Rowling just doesn't understand what character development is! 😢

[liweiming]

I think it's up to the readers to decide what to make of the character from what she wrote and interpret bits of the story even if she hadn't intended on giving that kind of idea. It's still good to understand her reasoning and intentions, but in the end, it's just a story, and if people want to like Draco (or other 'bad' characters) for one reason or another they can. Whether it's because of his good looks or dramatics, in the end, it's just a character who won't have an impact on real life... (I mean, bullying and bigotry are bad, and I hope no one idealized those bad behavior and made it seem as normal because it's not.)
Personally, Draco is my favorite character, probably because I liked the fanon version of him some potterhead presented to me before I watched the movies. I was really disappointed that he didn’t have a redemption arc! (The way some people talk about him made me believe he had a big redemption. I thought he was going to betray the dark side and join the light side, as in actively help the golden trio and admit the wrongs him ans his family have done... which would've been really interesting and nice.) Despite everything, he's still my favorite character. The Draco loving fanbase porttrayed a false yet very appealing Draco that I'm not ready to leave. I'm delusional, but I know that I am, so no harm done.
Anyway, I really like your video! And I'm sorry that some people give you a hard time sometimes, I've seen some mean comments here and there, and I hope it doesn’t discourage you from making more of these goodies!

Ps: I really love your video about Draco ❤