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My opinion on Draco Malfoy and what I think about J.K. Rowling's opinion on Draco Malfoy. Personally, I do not like what Rowling wrote on Pottermore about him: For all this, Draco remains a person of dubious morality in the seven published books, and 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 the dark glamour of the anti-hero; girls are very apt to romanticise such people. All of this left me in the unenviable position of pouring cold common sense on ardent readers’ daydreams as I told them, rather severely, that Draco was not concealing a heart of gold under all that sneering and prejudice and that no, he and Harry were not destined to end up best friends. I understand what Rowling tries to convey, but I somehow feel very uncomfortable being told not to like someone. True he is a person of dubious morality, but so am I. True Draco was not concealing a heart of gold under the sneering and prejudice, but so am I, my heart is made of stone and steel. The two points she raised here are not reasons for the readers to not like him. Draco Malfoy is one of my favorite characters. He is the most relatable character of all (at least to me) not good enough to be a real hero, not evil enough to be a true villian, just like the vast majority in the real world. He spent so many years disliking Harry, picking on him whenever he could, but he chose not to identify Harry at the Malfoy Manor, despite doing so would win his family glory. His father was sent to Azkaban because of Harry. As revenge he kicked Harry on the nose and left him on the train. He addressed Hermione as Mudblood all the time, but he tried his best to stop Crabbe from shooting the Killing Curse in the Room of Requirement. He brought the Death Eaters with the Vanishing Cabinet, but he lowered his wand at a frail, defenseless Dumbledore whom he never really liked. His behavior towards the people he disliked is nothing but the immature bullying acts prevalent in elementary schools and middle schools. For example, he initiated the Midnight Duel in order for Filch to catch Harry out of bed. He made the Potter Stinks badge and handed out everywhere. All his life, he was shielded by his parents and the powerful family name. He was born in a privileged and wealthy family, so he could buy his way into Quidditch team, took advantage of Buckbeak to get Hagrid in trouble, and threatened others with “my father will hear about this.” But he was thrown into the real world by the Dark Lord overnight. He used to think he had everything, but all of a sudden, he had nothing. He once looked forward to becoming someone important, but once he was a Death Eater himself, he was immediately disillusioned. He always took pride of his family, until at 16, he had to face the real world himself and assume an adult’s responsibility. He imagined killing Dumbledore was an important task assigned to him, until he realized how much he dreaded to have blood on his hand. He was brought up to worship the Dark Lord, but once his father failed to retrieve the prophecy, the Dark Lord spared no mercy on them at all. He always thought Crabbe and Goyle were loyal to him, but in front of imminent danger, he was told that “you and your dad are finished” and it was not him they were loyal to. It was his family influence. His awakened conscience led him to question his belief, to see the real world, and to grow up. Draco Malfoy paid a horrible price to grow up, but eventually he did. When I was little, I felt like I was the whole world. Then adulthood happened. I was thrown into the real world where I was nobody, nothing similiar to what I had fantasized, and the reality was much crueler than I had ever imagined.

Why aren't the Potters included in the Sacred 28 if James Potter was a pure-blood. Why wasn’t the Potter Family included in the Sacred Twenty-Eight pure-blood families in Harry Potter. Because the Potters weren’t pure-bloods, that’s why. The Potters continued to marry their neighbours, occasionally Muggles, and to live in the West of England, for several generations, each one adding to the family coffers by their hard work and, it must be said, by the quiet brand of ingenuity that had characterised their forebear, Linfred. From: The Potter Family at Wizarding World Someone mentioned that when he or she wrote the pure-blood list, the anonymous author of the Sacred Twenty-Eight suspected the Potters of having Muggle blood in their line. Of course, assuming the occasional Muggle marriages were far enough back in the family timeline, and given their wealth and respected social standing, the Potters might very well have been included in the pure-blood list anyway… if it hadn’t been for their prudence for justice and their strict adherence to the principle of assisting those in need. When the list of the Sacred Twenty-Eight first went to print, one of Harry’s Potter forefathers had recently made a case for assisting Muggles during World War I, at a time when (surprise, surprise) the Minister of Magic at the time was opposed. Henry Potter … who was a direct descendant of Hardwin and Iolanthe (Potter) … caused a minor stir when he publicly condemned then Minister for Magic, Archer Evermonde, who had forbidden the magical community to help Muggles waging the First World War. His outspokenness on the behalf of the Muggle community was also a strong contributing factor in the family’s exclusion from the ‘Sacred Twenty-Eight’. From: The Potter Family at Wizarding World Henry Potter’s human decency of standing up for the innocent Muggle victims of the First World War clearly didn’t sit well with the Minister of Magic at the time, who — one could reasonably infer — probably went out of his way to point out the Potters might not meet the pure-blood standard, whether he knew that for certain, or was just trying to save his own political ass. It stands to reason that Minister Archer — perhaps in a political fervor to retain office during a time of great conflict in both the wizarding world and the muggle one — might have gone out of his way in an attempt to slander the Potter name. While there’s no hard proof it was Archer, given the nature of the circumstances — again assuming a long time had passed since a Muggle married into the Potter Family before Lily Potter came along that the wizarding world would even consider the Potters as pure-blooded — I’m going to call it better than 50–50 that Minister Archer (or someone on his staff) hinted to the Sacred Twenty-Eight author that the Potters were not Pure Blood. It’s probably also worth mentioning — for the sake of recognizing the hypocrisy of the Sacred Twenty-Eight list — that the Malfoys had some Muggle blood in their line, but kept it very hush-hush. Until the imposition of the Statute of Secrecy in 1692, the Malfoy family was active within high-born Muggle circles… …once the Statute of Secrecy had passed into law the Malfoys ceased fraternising with Muggles … They performed an abrupt volte-face, and became as vocally supportive of the Statute as any of those who had championed it from the beginning, hastening to deny that they had ever been on speaking (or marrying) terms with Muggles. From: The Malfoy Family at Wizarding World Hence the hypocrisy of a pure-blood list. Not that any of it mattered to the Potters, quite frankly, who were practical and honorable people, and probably cared not one whit about that stupid list.

We know that unlike muggles, squibs posses some (passive?) magical powers. Its confirmed by miss Figg that they can see Dementors and as Argus Filch works at Hogwarts I'm assuming the muggle repelling charm do not work on them. No other powers are metioned or implied so I was wondering if any of you gave this any thought? Would a squib who has seen death be able to see Thestrals? How would a Wherewolf bite work on them? And are there any Hogwarts subjects they could take because they require no actual magic? Like Care of Magical Creatures, Potions, Herbology, ancient Runes? If so, why don't they? Do we need to form SISY (Society for the Integration of Squib Youth)? A lot of people are saying miss Figg was lying during her testimony in front of the Wizengamot. While it is heavely implied she was lying (Harry mentions her story feels very rehearsed) we do not know what parts were lies and what parts were true. I always assumed she lied (or exagerated) about witnessing the scene in question, but told the truth about the ability of squibs being able to see Dementors. 1. It would be pretty easy for the ministry to check the truth about this statement and if false Harry's whole defence would be in shambles. It would seem afwully risky and un-Dumbledorian to base the whole defence on a false fact. 2. Her line about being able to see dementors isn't part of her rehearsed monologue but rather a spontanaous reaction on a remark made by Fudge, so it doesnt come a across as a doubtfull statement, unlike the rest of her testimony.