JK Rowling reveals what she really thinks about Harry Potter’s nemesis Draco Malfoy

JK ROWLING has finally revealed what she really thinks about Draco Malfoy and has offered new insight into the fate of Harry Potter’s resident bad boy.

Tom Felton (centre) plays Harry’s nemesis Draco Malfoy in the Harry Potter films.

JK ROWLING has revealed one of her more interesting Harry Potter insights on her Pottermore fansite.

The author has been publishing snippets about the famous books for the past 10 days and has now shared her own thoughts on Harry’s Hogwarts enemy Draco Dalfoy, admitting to being “unnerved” by the romantic appeal he draws from fans.

“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,” Rowling wrote in her latest instalment of 12 Days of Christmas.

The writer goes on to acknowledge actor Tom Felton, “who plays Draco brilliantly in the films and, ironically, is about the nicest person you could meet.”

Rowling can’t understand why fans are attracted to schoolyard bully Draco Malfoy.

The 49-year-old novelist added: “Draco has all the dark glamour of the antihero; 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 that no, he and Harry were not destined to end up best friends.”

In her lengthiest piece of writing to appear on the fansite yet, Rowling also offers a glimpse into Malfoy’s backstory and future. She revealed Draco was “brought up to believe he occupied an almost royal position within the wizarding community.

“All his life, he had idolized a father who advocated violence and was not afraid to use it himself, and now that his son discovered in himself a distaste for murder, he felt it to be a shameful failing.”

Alas, Rowling says he and Harry never became friends.

Of his adult life, Rowling reminded fans that he goes on to marry the younger sister of a fellow Slytherin, Astoria Greengrass, who refuses to raise their son Scorpius “with the belief that Muggles were scum”.

“I imagine that Draco grew up to lead a modified version of his father’s existence; independently wealthy, without any need to work, Draco inhabits Malfoy Manor with his wife and son,” she wrote.

“I pity Draco. Being raised by the Malfoys would be a very damaging experience, and Draco undergoes dreadful trials as a direct result of his family’s misguided principles.”

But the best piece of trivia that Rowling treated fans to was that Draco’s last name was almost Spungen. She was also considering Smart and Spinks.

Draco Smart. It doesn’t sound quite like the Slytherin-sorted bully we all grew up with.

Evil little Draco Malfoy in The Chamber of Secrets.