1. Draco was Lucius and Narcissa’s sixth try at having an heir. The precedente pregnancies had all ended in miscarriage. They’d been married five years da that point, and Lucius was getting a bit desperate. After his birth, they didn’t bother trying again—they were both too scared of what would happen, and couldn’t handle the thought of having to go through più heartache.

2. Draco’s preferito bedtime story until he was five was the story of the Boy Who Lived and how their Lord would rise again—bur really, he was più interested in the boy than their Lord. Who cared about a moldy...