Was Draco supposed to disarm Dumbledore?

No. Albus Dumbledore did not intend for Draco Malfoy to disarm him. The door burst open and somebody erupted through it and shouted, “Expelliarmus!” Then, by the light of the Mark, he saw Dumbledore's wand flying in an arc over the edge of the ramparts and understood. . . .

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Did Dumbledore let Draco disarm him on purpose?

He was on the point of collapse when it happened,” Rowling said. “Dumbledore didn't want to lose his wand at that point and Draco disarmed him. So that meant that the wand gave Draco its allegiance, even though Draco never knew it, even though Draco never touched it.

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Why is Draco given the task of killing Dumbledore?

So, during the summer between his fifth and sixth years at Hogwarts, Draco Malfoy was tasked with the assassination of Albus Dumbledore to restore his family to Voldemort's good graces. Also at this time, Draco was branded with the Dark Mark. This killed two birds with one stone for Voldemort.

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Why didn t Dumbledore stop Draco?

It wasn't fear of Dumbledore that stopped Draco from killing him; rather, it was Dumbledore's love for Draco.

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Who disarmed Draco in the room of requirement?

Fiendfyre Rescue – Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2. Harry, Hermione, and Ron enter the Room of Requirement where they are confronted by Draco, Goyle, and Blaise. Hermione disarms Draco, and Goyle tries to kill her in response.

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Why was Draco bleeding in the bathroom?

Malfoy spots Harry and casts a Cruciatus curse; Harry, defending himself, using the Half-Blood Prince's Sectumsempra spell without knowing its effects. To his horror, it gashes Draco's face and chest, spilling his blood everywhere. Moaning Myrtle flies off, screaming.

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Why did Draco not get redemption?

Rowling is adamant that Malfoy didn't deserve a redemption arc because there was never a “heart of gold” underneath his pompous act. Yet, she gave that redemption to a character she said was morally grey; a man who bullied children and killed because of a girl who rejected him years before.

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Why doesn t Harry use avada kedavra?

Though Harry encountered many opportunities that deemed Avada Kedavra necessary, the wizard never cast, or even considered casting, that particular spell. For one, he viewed the spell as an immoral practice commonly used by users of the Dark Arts.

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Why did the Malfoys not go to Azkaban?

Lucius and Draco's crimes were forgiven due to their abandonment of Voldemort and his cause and Narcissa's lie to the Dark Lord that saved Harry Potter's life in the Forbidden Forest in the Battle of Hogwarts. None of them served time in Azkaban.

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Can Dumbledore fly without a broom?

Flying. Yes, yes. We know most wizards can fly whenever they want, providing they have a broomstick — or in more extreme cases, a Hippogriff. But it's also possible, in the rarest of cases, that wizards can fly unaided themselves, as first demonstrated by Lord Voldemort in Deathly Hallows, and later Severus Snape.

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Why did Voldemort want Draco to fail?

Voldemort, seeking to punish Lucius Malfoy still further for the botched capture of Harry, demanded that Draco perform a task so difficult that he would almost certainly fail – and pay with his life. Draco was to murder Albus Dumbledore – how, Voldemort did not trouble to say.

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Why was Lucius Malfoy sent to Azkaban?

Following his failure to obtain an important prophecy at the end of Order of the Phoenix, Lucius is sent to Azkaban for a while until Voldemort breaks him out, although he doesn't play much of a role in the series going forward.

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What did Lucius Malfoy do to make Voldemort mad?

Despite being a valued Death Eater in the days before Voldemort fell following his attack on baby Harry, Lucius stumbled out of favor with the Dark Lord when he squandered Riddle's diary (secretly a horcrux) in Chamber of Secrets and failed to obtain the prophecy in Order of the Phoenix.

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Did Harry get in trouble for using Sectumsempra on Draco?

Snape saved Draco, and having realised that Harry got a hold of the old textbook, he punished Harry with a multitude of detentions for nearly killing Malfoy. Harry, despite disliking Malfoy, did not truly want to harm Malfoy to such an extent, and was both horrified and guilt-ridden by using the curse against him.

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Why is Snape's Avada Kedavra blue?

In order to conjure the avada kedavra curse, you have to want to kill your victim. We all know that Voldemort could easily kill a child without an ounce of remorse... but not Snape. Snape didn't want to kill Dumbledore, and this was why the spell was blue instead of the usual green.

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How did Harry survive Avada Kedavra in the forest?

Voldemort intentionally made six Horcruxes, but when he used Avada Kedavra on Harry, he unintentionally created a seventh Horcrux. Instead of dying, Lily's love for Harry created a counter 'curse' known as Sacrificial Protection and saved Harry.

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Why was Lucius Malfoy forgiven?

Because he and his family defected from the Death Eaters they were pardoned for their crimes after Voldemort's final defeat and did not serve a stint in Azkaban. He and Narcissa later had a grandson, Scorpius Malfoy, after Draco married Astoria Greengrass.

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Are the Malfoys descendant of Slytherin?

The Slytherin family, like many of the pure-blood families, had some relation to many other families in the wizarding world. The Peverells, Gaunts, Blacks, Malfoys, Potters, Weasleys, Prewetts, and other families are all linked to one another through bloodlines and intermarriage.

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Are Sirius Black and Malfoys related?

The Malfoys are related to the Black family through Narcissa (a first cousin of Sirius Black, Harry's godfather), which makes Draco a nephew of both Bellatrix Lestrange and Andromeda Tonks.

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Can Expelliarmus stop Avada Kedavra?

Expelliarmus did not beat Avada Kedavra.

Voldemort's wand (the elder wand) recognized its true master (that was Harry) and refused to attack it. In a way Voldemort killed himself as his own spell backfired on him.

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Who can survived Avada Kedavra?

Avada Kedavra, also known as the Killing Curse, kills a person instantaneously and without injury. There is no countercurse for it, and only one person, Harry Potter, has ever survived it.

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Why does Harry use Expelliarmus?

Roughly translated, Expelliarmus – the Disarming Charm – means 'to drive out a weapon' and that's what it does: forces the subject to drop whatever they're holding. Usually that's a wand, which is why it's often seen in duels, and Harry definitely took that to heart, given how much he used it in combat.

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Who Draco lost his vcard to?

Pansy Parkinson

Draco lost his virginity to her on the Yule Ball night in fourth year and since then Draco and Pansy had been sexual partners. Pansy found out Draco's feelings for Hermione sometime at Hogwarts and the two were assumed to break up around the end of the War.

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Did Snape deserve a redemption arc?

If any character in the Harry Potter series deserved redemption, it was 100% going to be Snape. In the last movie, Snape shows Dumbledore that his Patronus is the same as Lily's and that what he does will always be for her — always (via Wizarding World).

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What did Draco rip out of the book?

Well, Harry and Ron only figured out it was a basilisk when they found the torn piece of paper in Hermione's petrified hand. Everyone assumed that Hermione was the one who figured it out, but a Tumblr user named Indie-band theorizes that Draco might have had a helping hand in the discovery!

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