Malfoy family (Pottermore)

[oryx_leucoryx]

I looked up the spoilers site and found there is more detailed information about The Malfoys. Enjoy!

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[sunnyskywalker]

I read a few more of those spoilers posts, and just had to point everyone's attention to this excerpt in the "technology" post:

When you can summon any book, instrument or animal with a wave of the wand and the word ‘Accio!’; when you can communicate with friends and acquaintances by means of owl, fire, Patronus, Howler, enchanted objects such as coins, or Apparate to visit them in person; when your newspaper has moving pictures and everyday objects sometimes talk to you, then the internet does not seem a particularly exciting place. This is not to say that you will never find a witch or wizard surfing the net; merely that they will generally be doing so out of slightly condescending curiosity, or else doing research in the field of Muggle Studies.

I just... does she know what the internet does? It's like saying, "When you can communicate friends by means of letter, telephone, singing telegram, or text messages, or drive or fly to visit them in person; when you have electronic picture frames which can animate your photos, then the internet does not seem a particularly exciting place." Our moving pictures* are even more exciting than theirs, so it's a wonder any of us are on these here interwebs.

*She tries to explain why they don't have TV, and it's spectacularly unconvincing.

[sweettalkeress.livejournal.com]

I personally find it in particularly poor taste that she went and insisted that the Black Plague and Queen Elizabeth I's refusal to marry were both the result of something a Malfoy did. Seriously, is there ANY major historical event which she will not insist was somehow caused by a wizard?

[lynn-waterfall.livejournal.com]

It's funny, but I reacted to different things in that post. I honestly liked the stuff about how the Malfoys had interacted regularly with Muggles, even if only wealthy Muggles, before Seclusion. Yes, it's supposed to make them look bad and hypocritical, but I enjoy thinking of the Malfoys as primarily opportunists, rather than idealists(-with-very-bad-ideals).

Everything that people have said about the ancestry thing is true, of course. I think that at this point I just filter it out... in a way, it's probably why I enjoyed the history so much, because when you recognize that JKR shamelessly conflates past and present, why, she's halfway to saying that Lucius or Draco might consider interacting with (wealthy) Muggles, should it become more advantageous than not. After all, every person in the family is basically the same throughout history. (rolls eyes/shrugs)

Anyway, that bit reminded me a little of the Malfoys in Arsinoe de Blassenville's "The Best Revenge," which I would recommend to anyone here who hasn't already read it.

[danajsparks.livejournal.com]

I've read various arguments that the Malfoys are "new money," given their behavior, so I think it's interesting to find out that they arrived with William the Conqueror.