2015 has been a good year for Potter fans, with the announcement that the JK Rowling co-made play Harry Potter And The Cursed Child will be split into two parts designed to be viewed consecutively over two evenings meaning that there is now even more of Rowling's wizarding world for us to look forward to. The play, for which Rowling enlisted the help of an experienced theatre team including writer Jack Thorne to create, will debut at the Palace Theatre in London in summer 2016 and will be centred around previously unexplored parts of Harry's early years as an orphan and outcast in the Muggle world. If there is one thing a Harry Potter fan enjoys it's JK Rowling adding to Potter canon, and the Cursed Child is to be considered just that, but the savvy among you will know that a source for extra Potter info is already available. Pottermore is JK Rowling's own interactive website, designed to give her the chance to tell unknown parts of her tale to fans who can experience the stories in a whole new way. Going through the books chapter by chapter, users collect books, potion ingredients, galleons, chocolate frog cards and everything in between, all of which earn house points for the reader. Winning the house cup with the help of your fellow users is a good bit of fun, but what we're all there for are the moments of insight, the little tid-bits that string two previously unconnected events together or reveal an unknown part of a character's history. We hang around Pottermore like pigeons, waiting patiently for small yet satisfying crumbs of information, some of which are more unbelievable than others...
10. A Malfoy Tried To Marry Queen Elizabeth I
While the Malfoys are known to be anti-Muggle in the extreme, it was not always the case with past generations of the pure-blood family. What has always been the case is that they are a power hungry bunch, and this is particularly true in the case of Lucius Malfoy, first of his name. According to Pottermore, there is ample evidence to suggest that Lucius Malfoy I was an unsuccessful aspirant to the hand of Elizabeth I, and some wizarding historians allege that the Queen's subsequent, well-documented opposition to marriage was due to a jinx placed upon her by the thwarted Malfoy. This, Rowling confirmed, happened long before the Malfoys changed their view on Muggles, and later, the scandalous story was hotly denied by subsequent generations. The Lucius Malfoy we came to know as Dracos father was also revealed to be an opportunist by Pottermore, when Rowling explained how he thought it possible that Harry was only able to survive Voldemorts killing-curse on the night his parents died because he himself was a dark wizard who would grow up to become even more powerful than his attacker. This is why Draco attempts to befriend Harry when the two meet on their first day at Hogwarts, at the behest of his father who would have liked to take the boy under his wing and tutor him in the Dark Arts.
