Draco Malfoy

I was looking for information about Draco Malfoy when I found this:

"Slytherin rival of Harry, Ron, and Hermione.

"Draco" means "dragon" in Latin. Also, Draco was the name of a cruel Athenian lawmaker. His harsh legal code punished both trivial and serious crimes with death. From this we get our expression "draconian laws", meaning unnecessarily harsh laws.

According to JKR, "Malfoy" is old French for "bad faith"."

I think that is interesting.

I also found this information about the Laws and Draco:

"After the Dark Ages - About 1200-900 BC - and beginning at about 900 BC, the Ancient Greeks had no official laws or punishments.

Murders were settled by members of the victim's family, who would then go and kill the murderer.

This often began endless blood feuds.

It was not until the middle of the seventh century BC that the Greeks first began to establish official laws.

Around 620 BC Draco, the lawgiver, set down the first known written law of Ancient Greece. These laws were so harsh that his name gave rise to our English word "Daconian" meaning an unreasonably harsh law."


I hope you find this as interesting as I did.

BTW, read the rest of the article here.

Mark, No offense, but u seem to have alot of time on ur hands :P




*giggles and skips away *

Yeah, I kinda do.

But, I also found a lot of this info on the same page, but I hadn't read that far, so I didn't think to post it. Then, when I actually finished rading, I posted the part I had missed.

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[font=Geneva][COLOR=purple[size=1] DRACO IS SO HOT! But he is evil, father a death eater, and Draco meaning Dragon, what a voldemort loving family!!!!

Woah, mark...honestly. Do you have a woman? Cuz if ur looking up in the dictionary what draco means that means your a true pansy... sorry man.

I think its cool that Mark Evans was able to discover all that about Draco. I'm impressed that somebody actually had a desire to go and learn all that history.
Way to go! *thumbs up*

i found this information to be very interesting and informative. Someone who rely like harry potter books takes the time to do this i think it should be commended
thank you mark for posting this it answers alot of questions as to why draco is the way he is.
I think it also shows that Ms. Rowling did alot of research to arrive at a fitting name for all the characters
how interesting