[HPforGrownups] Why is Draco an only child

[Troels Forchhammer]

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At 03:49 03-04-05 +0000, B.G. wrote:

>In an interview JKR simply stated that "Draco is an only child, can
>you imagine more Dracos".

World Book Day Festival on-line chat
<http://www.quick-quote-quill.org/articles/2004/0304-wbd.htm>

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>His character is a bit of a wimp in the last film but I don't read
>him that way in the books.  He is following in his father's footsteps.

I think that, if anything, the films are underplaying his
cowardness . . .

Recall also that Rowling values courage very highly. Draco, who
Harry's opposite, must, for literary reasons, be as lacking in
this quality as Harry is possessing it.

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