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Contents 1 Trivia 2 Draco Malfoy can(not) see Thestrals 3 Half-Blood Prince 4 "Unusual names"

[edit] Trivia

Do we really need the trivia section? It doesn't really seem to shed very much light on Draco as a character, or the series as a whole, and it's not even very interesting. Hermione1980 17:24, 8 April 2006 (UTC)

Yes please. Just nuke the whole section entirely. --Deathphoenix ʕ 17:28, 8 April 2006 (UTC)

Kaboooom, nuke away. Death Eater Dan (Muahaha) 17:41, 8 April 2006 (UTC)

Poof. (Finally.) Hermione1980 00:39, 18 April 2006 (UTC)

as Tangina Barrons (Zelda Rubinstein) said, while "addressing the living" in Poltergeist ... "This House is Cleansed" --T-dot 01:22, 18 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Draco Malfoy can(not) see Thestrals

A completely new theory I read completely took me by surprise. I'm having trouble absorbing it. [User:65.191.82.234] added this comment in to the end of the literary analysis:

By the time he's 17, Draco Malfoy can see Thestrals (actually, this isn't certain. It's certain that he's seen someone die, but he has not necessarily realized that they are dead, never coming back, etc).

JKR during an interview with Stephen Fry...

Email: “Harry saw his parents die so why hasn’t he been able to see the Thestrals before?”

JK Rowling: I knew I was going to get that one…that is an excellent question. And here is the truth. At the end of Goblet of Fire we sent Harry home more depressed than he had ever been leaving Howarts. I knew that Thestrals were coming, and I can prove that because they’re in the book I’d produced for Comic Relief (UK) “Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them”. These are lucky Black Winged Horses. However, if Harry had seen them and it had not been explained then it would cheat the reader. So, to explain that to myself, I decided you had to have seen the death and allowed it to sink in a bit… slowly…these creatures became solid in front of you. So that’s how I’m going to sneak past that one.

Is that right? Is it truly not certain that Malfoy can see thestrals? Your 2 cents please. Dragix 01:44, 15 June 2006 (UTC)

add archive I think that it would be safe to say that he can. He would realize that Dumbledore is dead and not coming back, and that given his "part" in it i think it would sink in pretty fast. It will be interesting to see if JK will have Draco realize he can see them or anything like that.Wilson84 03:50, 18 June 2006 (UTC

I'd just like to remind everyone that article talk pages are not the place to discuss these matters. Article talk pages should only be used to discuss the content of articles, and since speculations have no place in articles, this discussion needs to be taken elsewhere, like one of the many fan forums. Thanks Exploding Boy 03:53, 18 June 2006 (UTC)

And I'd like to remind you that at the time it was there to discuss the content of the article. Dragix 23:48, 18 June 2006 (UTC)

If you ask me, I think he'll see them, of course, but I don't know if it'll be this soon. Malfoy's capable of kind of keeping things from himself, trying not to deal with it, I think.

[edit] Half-Blood Prince

This section is pretty rough, and could use some clean-up. I haven't read this book myself, and am confused by some of the pronouns, otherwise, I would do it myself. Cgirten 05:30, 26 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] "Unusual names"

Someone keeps putting up a mini-essay on whether Draco's name is "unusual" or "exotic" by Muggle standards. Apart from the fact that this is completely subjective (how does one determine how "unusual" or "exotic" a name is?) the article claims that some names, such as Luna and Hermione, are unusual, when they aren't even uncommon. Serendipodous 18:08, 15 October 2006 (UTC)