Harry Potter: 10 Things Only Book Fans Know About The Malfoys

The Malfoys are the odious Slytherin family of Harry Potter – but the movies didn’t cover all the book details about Draco, Lucius, and Narcissa.

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There are some pretty bad families in the Harry Potter universe. The Lestranges are repulsive, with Bellatrix and Rodolphus both serving Lord Voldemort. The Dursleys are an abhorrent bunch too, treating the Boy Who Lived with nothing but disdain during his time in their care. However, while that’s the case, the Malfoys could be the worst of the bunch.

Lucius is a Death Eater and pure-blood fanatic, Narcissa looks like she’s got something smelly under her nose, and Draco, for the most part, is Hogwarts’ biggest bully. The movies featured all three characters but, inevitably, not every single detail made it onto the big screen.

10 They Were The First To ‘Return’

Lucius, being the pure-blood fanatic he is, sympathizes with Lord Voldemort’s cause. He’s a big ally to the Dark Lord during the first wizarding war, taking part in all sorts of abhorrent activities. However, despite this, he’s granted a reprieve.

Fans of the source material will know that this is because Lucius claimed he was acting under The Imperius Curse. As a result, all is forgiven and he’s able to work his way up to being a respected, and feared, figure in the community. He worms his way into power and, as a result, believes he’s better than everybody else. Especially the Weasleys.

9 Narcissa Doted On Draco

Harry feels very much out of his comfort zone when Rubeus Hagrid whisks him away from the Dursleys and changes his life forever in the process. Being an orphan, it means that he’s often left out when it comes to getting post at Hogwarts. Ron and the rest of the Weasleys are sent things (that they’ve normally forgotten) from parents Molly and Arthur, while Neville gets a Rememberall to help him out with that shocking memory of his.

While looking around the Great Hall and dwelling on his feelings, Harry notices an owl land in front of Draco. It’s revealed that his mother always sends him sweets and treats, which he gleefully laps up. After all, we wouldn’t say no if our parents decided to throw some sugary snacks our way.

8 Lucius Warned Draco Over Harry

In the Chamber of Secrets blockbuster, we catch just a snippet of a conversation between Lucius Malfoy and Draco in Borgin and Burkes, located in Knockturn Alley. What the blockbuster doesn’t show, however, is Lucius urging his son to watch how he speaks about Harry.

Lucius is a smart man. He knows that Harry is the golden boy of the magical community, having been responsible for Lord Voldemort’s defeat many years previously. And he acknowledges that, in slamming the Boy Who Lived, Draco risks making enemies in all the wrong places. There’s also a part of Malfoy Sr that believes Harry could be another dark wizard in the making but he’s definitely incorrect on that front.

7 Lucius Bullied Draco Over Hermione

That isn’t the only tidbit we learn about the Malfoys in the Chamber of Secrets. During the conversation between Lucius and Draco in Knockturn Alley, Harry and the reader also learns of the former’s fury that Hermione Granger, a muggle-born, beats his son at every single subject.

Draco is basically criticized for failing to work hard enough and, with the Malfoy family being obsessed with the purity of blood, this definitely hits home. He still doesn’t do too badly out of this, though, with Lucius getting him the Nimbus 2001 – as well as the rest of the Slytherin team. Bad parenting, if you ask us…

6 Draco Nearly Attended Durmstrang

Harry’s spell at Hogwarts would certainly have been considerably calmer had Draco not been starting off at the castle at the exact same time. And, in the Goblet of Fire, Malfoy Jr can be heard telling his friends about how he very nearly attended Durmstrang instead – the institution, based in Eastern Europe, overseen by former Death Eater Igor Karkaroff.

Lucius wanted his son to go there given their obsession with the Dark Arts but Narcissa, not wanting to lose her son, insisted he go to Hogwarts instead. Viktor Krum attends Durmstrang but is against their dark ideology, while it was also once attended by Gellert Grindelwald – before he got expelled.

5 They’re Related To The Tonks’

So in the Order of the Phoenix movie, while at 12 Grimmauld Place, Harry and Sirius Black share an exchange. During this conversation, Harry notices on the Black Family tree that Sirius is actually related to the Malfoys – although it’s definitely something he doesn’t far from proud of.

What isn’t revealed, though, is that Nymphadora Tonks is also related to the family. Narcissa and Bellatrix are her cousins – though that doesn’t prevent the latter from murdering her during the Battle of Hogwarts. Bellatrix, Narcissa, and Co are all scolded by Lord Voldemort for being related to Tonks in the Deathly Hallows novel, with the rest of the Death Eaters cackling away at their master’s words.

4 The Family Had Links To Horace Slughorn

Draco spends the majority of his time in the Half-Blood Prince film operating in the shadows, determined to succeed at the task of killing Albus Dumbledore. That and breaking Harry’s nose aside, however, he does precious little else of note.

The book of the same name, inevitably, gives him more backstory and depth. And Draco reveals that Horace Slughorn once knew his grandfather, Abraxas, while attempting to suck up the Potions Master. This plan fails, though, with Slughorn far more focused on students such as Harry, Ginny Weasley, Hermione Granger, and Neville Longbottom. This, somewhat understandably, leaves Draco feeling frustrated.

3 Many Suspected Lucius Feared Voldemort

Despite failing to look for Voldemort during his absent years, and also contributing to his master’s old school diary being destroyed, Lucius remains very much in favor with his master. As a result, he’s given the task of retrieving the prophecy from the Department of Mysteries. But he fails and, consequently, enrages the Dark Lord.

In the Half-Blood Prince Lucius’ incarceration in Azkaban is discussed and the rumor is that Lucius is secretly glad to be locked up, rather than facing Voldemort’s wrath. We certainly don’t blame him. Most people who cross You Know Who don’t live for very long…

2 They Were Present For The Celebrations

In the Deathly Hallows: Part 2, the last fans see of the Malfoys is all three walking away as the Battle of Hogwarts continues following Harry’s shock return from the dead. Narcissa and Draco lead the way with Lucius casting a look back as they flee the scene, a slight look of relief on his face.

But things differ in the book. All three are instead present for Lord Voldemort’s downfall and the celebrations that ensue afterward. They look uncomfortable with their predicament but manage to escape a spell in Azkaban due to the way Narcissa protected Harry after his presumed death in the Forbidden Forest.

1 Lucius Created A Time Turner (And Draco Used It)

While not part of the original seven books, The Cursed Child is still part of the Harry Potter canon. And, in it, it’s revealed that Lucius Malfoy and Theodore Nott created a time-turner. At first, it had its limitations, giving them just five minutes in the past before they crack the code. Despite this, they choose never to use it.

But Draco has no choice to. When son Scorpius Malfoy and Harry’s own child Albus Potter are stuck in the past he uses it to come to their rescue. Draco also reveals in the book and play that he believed his father preferred a world without Voldemort, despite serving him for so many years.

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