# When is Draco Malfoy's birthday?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-is-draco-malfoys-birthday/378354
**Category:** Cafe Society
**Created:** [October 29, 2006, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-is-draco-malfoys-birthday/378354 "2006-10-29T19:20:55Z")
**Posts on this page:** 12
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### Author:  [@Revenant\_Threshold](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revenant_Threshold)
#### Post date: [October 29, 2006, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-is-draco-malfoys-birthday/378354/1 "2006-10-29T19:20:55Z")
Thought i’d stick it in here rather than GQ. Anyone know? I’m building a _dramatic pause_ theory.
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### Author:  [@jacob\_wrestling](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jacob_wrestling)
#### Post date: [October 29, 2006, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-is-draco-malfoys-birthday/378354/2 "2006-10-29T19:44:59Z")
According to the [Harry Potter Lexicon](http://www.hp-lexicon.org/wizards/draco.html), it’s June 5, 1980. In book 6, Harry and Draco were some of the only sixth years who weren’t old enough to take their apparition tests in the spring.
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### Author:  [@Sattua](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sattua)
#### Post date: [October 29, 2006, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-is-draco-malfoys-birthday/378354/3 "2006-10-29T19:50:58Z")
Rowling has made a point of indicating the birthday months of a lot of the characters… and a lot of the Gryffindors are fire signs (Harry is a Leo; Ron Fred and George are all sometime in April, which is likely Aries; Hermione is sometime in the Autumn–maybe or maybe not Sagittarius, though probably not).
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### Author:  [@Revenant\_Threshold](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revenant_Threshold)
#### Post date: [October 29, 2006, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-is-draco-malfoys-birthday/378354/4 "2006-10-29T20:11:21Z")
[QUOTE=jacob wrestling]
According to the [Harry Potter Lexicon](http://www.hp-lexicon.org/wizards/draco.html), it’s June 5, 1980. In book 6, Harry and Draco were some of the only sixth years who weren’t old enough to take their apparition tests in the spring.
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Yes, that’s what prompted the question; I was re-reading HBP and read that and thought “Hey, maybe Draco is the person referred to in the prophecy” - but his birthday’s too early. Ah well. Thanks anyway. 🙂
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### Author:  [@Rysto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rysto)
#### Post date: [October 29, 2006, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-is-draco-malfoys-birthday/378354/5 "2006-10-29T20:11:53Z")
Fred and George’s birthday is April 1st; Ron’s is March 1st; Hemione’s is September 19.
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### Author:  [@Manatee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Manatee)
#### Post date: [October 30, 2006, 4:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-is-draco-malfoys-birthday/378354/6 "2006-10-30T04:58:26Z")
What’s it to you, mudblood?
😃
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### Author:  [@mobo85](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mobo85)
#### Post date: [October 30, 2006, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-is-draco-malfoys-birthday/378354/7 "2006-10-30T15:36:44Z")
[QUOTE=Rysto]
Fred and George’s birthday is April 1st; Ron’s is March 1st; Hemione’s is September 19.
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And of course, Harry’s is July 31- same as J.K. Rowling’s.
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### Author:  [@BwanaBob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BwanaBob)
#### Post date: [October 30, 2006, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-is-draco-malfoys-birthday/378354/8 "2006-10-30T15:52:23Z")
[QUOTE=jacob wrestling]
According to the [Harry Potter Lexicon](http://www.hp-lexicon.org/wizards/draco.html), it’s June 5, 1980. In book 6, Harry and Draco were some of the only sixth years who weren’t old enough to take their apparition tests in the spring.
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Is this a typo? Do you mean 1990?
If it is 1980, then I’m at a loss, as I never considered the Potter series to be set in the past.
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### Author:  [@Revenant\_Threshold](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revenant_Threshold)
#### Post date: [October 30, 2006, 4:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-is-draco-malfoys-birthday/378354/9 "2006-10-30T16:01:39Z")
[QUOTE=BwanaBob]
If it is 1980, then I’m at a loss, as I never considered the Potter series to be set in the past.
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It’s 1980 - the HP series is indeed set in the past (that is, HBP is not set in 2006 but 1996-7.
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### Author:  [@BwanaBob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BwanaBob)
#### Post date: [October 30, 2006, 4:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-is-draco-malfoys-birthday/378354/10 "2006-10-30T16:10:48Z")
[QUOTE=Revenant Threshold]
It’s 1980 - the HP series is indeed set in the past (that is, HBP is not set in 2006 but 1996-7.
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Wow, I must have really poor reading retention skills. In which book do they peg the year?
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### Author:  [@lexan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lexan)
#### Post date: [October 30, 2006, 5:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-is-draco-malfoys-birthday/378354/11 "2006-10-30T17:17:31Z")
[QUOTE=BwanaBob]
Wow, I must have really poor reading retention skills. In which book do they peg the year?
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The only direct reference to the year I noticed was in the second book, where they attend Nearly Headless Nick’s deathday anniversary; it’s the 500th anniversary of his death in 1492, which means the second book is covering the 1992-93 school year.
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### Author:  [@Improv\_Geek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Improv_Geek)
#### Post date: [October 30, 2006, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-is-draco-malfoys-birthday/378354/12 "2006-10-30T17:26:13Z")
If I recall the first book came out a year or two after the chronological time it is in the book, and since each book is in a succeeding year but takes more than 1 year to release we’ve grown further and further behind.
– IG