Malfoy M Manor

> He always did himself well, Lucius. *Peacocks*...
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> Corban Yaxley while entering Malfoy Manor, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

**Malfoy Manor** was the home of the wealthy pure-blood Malfoy family, located in ***Wiltshire***, ***England***. It was mainly used as the base of operations for Lord Voldemort and the ***Death Eaters*** during the Second Wizarding War, much to the immense discomfort of Lucius, ***Narcissa***, and Draco Malfoy.

## History

### Founding

Like many other progenitors of noble English families, the wizard ***Armand Malfoy*** arrived in Britain with William the Conqueror as part of the invading Norman army. Having rendered unknown, shady, (and almost certainly magical) services to King ***William I***, Malfoy was given a prime piece of land in Wiltshire, seized from local landowners, upon which his descendants lived for ten consecutive centuries.
Over hundreds of years, they managed to add to their lands in Wiltshire by annexing those of neighbouring ***Muggles***, and the favour they curried with royalty added ***Muggle*** treasures and works of art to an ever-expanding collection. This expansion ceased when the ***International Statute of Wizarding Secrecy*** was passed, in which the Malfoys hotly denied any connections with Muggles to uphold their position of influence in the newly formed ***Ministry of Magic***.

### Death Eater headquarters

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 File:Meeting-0.jpg  Following Harry Potter's survival of his duel with the Dark Lord after the latter returned to power and prior to his arrest after the ***Battle of the Department of Mysteries***, Lucius would hold meetings with his fellow Death Eaters over the summer at his home. During these meetings, they discussed the ***Rebirth of Lord Voldemort***, Harry Potter's survival of the ***duel*** with the Dark Lord, and the likely explanations for the odd reactions of their wands. However, Lucius' son Draco would grow increasingly (and secretly) envious of his school rival for being discussed seriously as an adversary, whereas he himself was still seen as a mere schoolboy by Death Eaters who met at his parents’ house.
By the summer of ***1997***, Lucius Malfoy and many other Death Eaters had escaped Azkaban prison, and the Dark Lord had made the Malfoys' home his headquarters, replacing the Riddle House in Little Hangleton. While the Malfoys were very uncomfortable with this, Bellatrix Lestrange, Lucius's sister-in-law, who also resided there, claimed there could be "no higher pleasure" than having Lord Voldemort stay with them. ***Delphini***, the daughter of The Dark Lord and Bellatrix, reported that she was born at the Manor.
Shortly before Harry Potter's seventeenth birthday, Death Eaters Yaxley and Severus Snape entered the Manor to bring news of how the Ministry of Magic was being infiltrated and of the activities of the Order of the Phoenix, respectively. The resulting plans would lead to Voldemort's take-over of the Ministry using the puppet ***Minister for Magic*** ***Pius Thicknesse***, and to the Battle of the Seven Potters. At this meeting, Voldemort also killed Charity Burbage, the professor of Muggle Studies at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, and fed her to his snake ***Nagini***.
In ***1998***, the Manor was used to hold some prisoners of Lord Voldemort, such as Mr Ollivander, ***Luna Lovegood***, ***Griphook***, and ***Dean Thomas***.

### Skirmish

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When Harry Potter, Ron Weasley, and Hermione Granger were caught by a group of ***Snatchers*** led by ***Fenrir Greyback*** around Easter of that year, they were brought to Malfoy Manor so that one of the Death Eaters residing there could signal Voldemort with the ***Dark Mark***. However, Bellatrix spotted the Sword of Gryffindor among the prisoners' possessions and delayed calling the Dark Lord.
Instead, she interrogated and tortured Hermione with the Cruciatus Curse to try to find out how the trio had obtained the Sword, which she believed to be in her ***vault*** at Gringotts. Bellatrix also threatened to kill Hermione with her knife when Harry and Ron came in with wands they had stolen. All the prisoners managed to escape with the assistance of the house-elf Dobby.

### Post-War

After the ***Battle of Hogwarts*** and Lord Voldemort's defeat, the Manor was once more in the control of the Malfoys. However, Lucius died sometime between 2007 and 2020, at which point the estate became home to Draco Malfoy and his wife and son, ***Astoria*** and ***Scorpius Malfoy***. Following the conclusion of the Second Wizarding War, two portraits had been added to the family's gallery that depicted the late Lord Voldemort and ***Bellatrix Lestrange***, which still hung in the manor by the end of the ***Calamity*** in ***December*** of ***2021***.

## Manor and land

### Driveway

> They turned right, into a wide driveway that led off the lane. The high hedge curved with them, running off into the distance beyond the pair of impressive wrought-iron gates barring the men's way... the source of the noise proved to be nothing more than a pure-white peacock, sturring majestically along the top of the hedge.
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> Description of Severus Snape and Yaxley walking along the driveway, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

 File:Malfoy Manor exterior.jpg  The gravel driveway to the manor house was wide and had a large hedge curving alongside it. The driveway and hedge went past a pair of ***wrought-iron gates***. These gates permitted select individuals (those who made some sort of salute) to pass through them as if they were smoke, and with others the iron contorted into a face which demanded the purpose of the person trying to enter the manor.
The yew hedge was known to have albino peacocks roving along the top of it. The outside of the manor was grand and the land surrounding it was vast, filling many acres. Those acres contained numerous types of trees and various plant and perhaps other animal life.

### Entrance Hallway

> The hallway was large, dimly lit and sumptuously decorated, with a magnificent carpet covering most of the stone floor. The eyes of the pale-faced portraits on the walls followed Snape and Yaxley as they strode past. The two men halted at a heavy wooden door leading into the next room, hesitated for the space of a heartbeat, then Snape turned the bronze handle.
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> Severus Snape entering the Manor, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

The hallway was large, dimly lit, and sumptuously decorated, with a magnificent carpet covering the stone floor. The walls of the entrance hall displayed pale-faced ***portraits*** lining the walls, and at the end of the hall was the bronze-handled door to the drawing room.

### The Manor

> A handsome manor house grew out of the darkness at the end of the straight drive, lights glinting in the diamond-paned downstairs windows. Somewhere in the dark garden beyond the hedge a fountain was playing...
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> Description of the manor, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

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Malfoy Manor was a "*handsome manor house*" surrounded by elaborate gardens, including a fountain. The front door swung inward at the approach of a person (or perhaps just a select group of people) without anyone visibly opening it.

#### Drawing Room

> The drawing room was full of silent people, sitting at a long and ornate table...Illumination came from a roating fire beneath a handsome marble mantelpiece surmounted by a gilded mirror.
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> Description of the drawing room, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

The drawing room was a widely proportioned room. Probably the grandest room of the house, it had ceilings 30 feet high, two chandeliers, and a pipe organ at one end. It had a long ornate table, where the ***Death Eaters*** and Voldemort sat during their meeting. Also, during the ***Death Eater Meeting***, the usual furniture was pushed carelessly up against the walls.

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The drawing room had a handsome, ornate marble mantelpiece with a gilded mirror which had an intricately scrolled frame on top. Many of the known activities of the Death Eaters took place in the drawing room, which had dark purple walls with more ***portraits***, and a large crystal chandelier, which was eventually destroyed by Dobby during the ***escape of several prisoners***. It was probably restored (by magic) to where it was previously hung.

#### Cellar

> They were forced down a steep flight of stairs, still tied back-to-back and in danger of slipping and breaking their necks at any moment. At the bottom was a heavy door. Greyback unlocked it with a tap of his wand, then forced them into a dank and musty room and left them in total darkness.
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> Harry Potter and Ron Weasley are forced into the cellar after being captured by Snatchers, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

 File:MalfoyManorCellar.jpg  These prisoners had all been held in the secret room below the drawing room. According to Draco Malfoy, the family's collection of Dark artefacts were hidden below ground level in this room so as to prevent any from being seized during ***Ministry*** raids, one such raid having been conducted in ***December*** 1992.
During Lord Voldemort's stay in the manor, the function of this room changed to that of a holding cell for the aforementioned prisoners. This room was completely escape-proof and had no light; only house-elves could bypass the room's securities. It had nothing in it except a water jug, a food bowl and a nail.

## See also

* Skirmish at Malfoy Manor
* Malfoy family

## Behind the scenes

* ***J. K. Rowling*** has stated that there was a deleted scene, which was to take place either in ***Chamber of Secrets*** or ***Goblet of Fire***, in which Draco Malfoy would be shown talking to fellow Slytherin ***Theodore Nott*** in the gardens of Malfoy Manor. Rowling said that she really liked the scene:
	+ *"Firstly because it showed the Malfoys' home, and the difference between the place where Draco has grown up and **number four, Privet Drive**; then because we rarely see Draco talking to anybody he considers a real equal, and he is forced to see Theodore as such, because Theodore is just as pure-blooded as he is, and somewhat cleverer. Together these two **Death Eaters**' sons discuss Dumbledore's regime at Hogwarts and Harry Potter, with all sorts of stories that the Death Eaters tell about how this baby boy survived the Dark Lord's attack."*
* In Template:DH, the exterior scenes of Malfoy Manor were shot at Hardwick Hall.
* Considering that Abraxas Malfoy was still alive when Lucius resided in the manor with his wife and son, and Draco likewise took over the ownership of it and lived there with *his* wife and son, while both Lucius and Narcissa were still alive, it is possible that the ownership of the Manor is passed on from parent to child when the latter in adult age is to marry and have a family of his/her own. If this is the case, the Malfoys have a presumably somewhat smaller property into which they move.

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## Notes and references

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1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Template:OOTP
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5. ↑ Template:DH The hallway was large, dimly lit, and sumptuously decorated, with a magnificent carpet covering most of the stone floor. **The eyes of the pale-faced portraits on the wall followed Snape and Yaxley as they strode past**.
6. ↑ Given the Malfoys' overall unease with hosting Voldemort at their home, that the Dark Lord revelled in their humiliation, and that it was never removed after Voldemort's death, it is possible that Voldemort himself arranged to have his likeness mounted on the wall and used a ***Permanent Sticking Charm*** to ensure that his presence would always be felt at the Manor as a way of added pressure on the Malfoys, which would explain why the portrait was still there in the 2020s despite Lucius' pardon and Draco's firm disassociation with the Dark Lord's cause.
7. ↑ It is possible that either Draco or ***Narcissa Malfoy*** commissioned this portrait in secret after Bellatrix's death and had it put up in the Manor, seen as how in spite of all her wrongdoings in life, Bellatrix remained a member of the family whom either one of them would, if not for her notoriety as a Death Eater, remember at least somewhat fondly as an aunt or sister.
8. ↑ See ***here*** for listed date of when the final chapter took place in-universe.
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10. ↑ J.K. Rowling's Official Website: Extra Stuff

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