[HPforGrownups] Draco Malfoy

[Richelle Votaw]

No: HPFGUIDX 42386

Fyre Wood writes:

> By the way, have any of you guys throughly discussed the
> characterization of Draco Malfoy? There is no FAQ list for him on the
> Lexicon website, and I'm only through the first 3000 messages in
> archives. Just wondering, because I've got a lot of theories on that
> boy.

I've been thinking about him a lot lately myself.  I've just bought a latin
dictionary and have been looking up various things in it from Harry Potter.
I did learn a few things, and one of those is that draco, which can mean
dragon, can also mean serpent or snake.  Boy, only a true Slytherin would
name their son snake!  As for Malfoy, JKR said she made it up.  That doesn't
mean she didn't take parts of words and put them together, right?  Anyway, I
came up with "to wickedly disfigure or disgrace" for Malfoy.  Hmm, there's
something to think about.  Either JKR accidentally got a great Latin meaning
for Malfoy (lose translation yes, but it works as well as some of the spells
latin meanings do), or it was intentional.  Thoughts on that?

Richelle