Tom Felton Says His Bond With Harry Potter In 'Deathly Hallows' Is 'Really Interesting'

It's hard to grasp the fact that, in a little more than a year, the "Harry Potter" film saga will finally be over. Sure, it will have taken four years since the release of J.K. Rowling's final "Harry Potter" novel for the final film to hit the screen, but it's still a bit of the magic that we'd like to have dragged out longer. I agree so much!

Thanks to Universal Orlando's newest addition to Islands of Adventure, The Wizarding World of Harry Potter, the magic will be new and fresh for many years to come, but the ending of such an important story to modern pop culture is something to be mourned.


There is one actor from the film who isn't mourning the films ending: rather, Tom Felton is relishing in the changes his character Draco Malfoy is forced to face. Tom has been playing Harry Potter's classmate archnemesis for more than a decade, but finally the hateful dynamic between the two young wizards will become more complicated.

"It was one of the things I was really looking forward to with 'Deathly Hallows'," he told MTV. "My personal opinion is, deep down, Draco is desperate to get out of what he's in. In 'Half-Blood Prince,' he had a real wake-up call, realizing this is not what he wants to do; this isn't the path he wants to go down. Unfortunately, his parental influences aren't too good. He's kind of forced into the dark side. It's hard when Voldemort is sort of your step-uncle, in a weird way."

Tom was referencing Draco's assignment from the most evil of all evils in the "Harry Potter" universe — Lord Voldemort — to kill the beloved headmaster at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, Albus Dumbledore. Though Draco had seemed almost unquestionably on the side of Voldemort's followers — the Death Eaters — throughout the course of the series, he was forced to reconsider following his parents' life path into darkness after being ordered to kill someone.

This important revelation meant there is something of a change in the dynamic between Draco and Harry in the final book, and Tom said that was something else he really enjoyed about the final two films.

"Harry and Draco almost have a bond, and they save each other's lives on numerous occasions," he said. "It's a really weird love/hate relationship. It's great that it's left to our interpretation of how and why this is all happening. We have shot some really interesting stuff with me and Daniel [Radcliffe] me saving him and him saving me. For once, we're not just bickering!"


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