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== General Overview ==
== Extended Description ==
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{{Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Beginner Spoiler}}
Though barely mentioned in earlier books,
The first time we see Malfoy Manor is at the beginning of [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Books/Deathly Hallows/Chapter 1|''Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows'']]. We learn that the Malfoys kept albino peacocks when one of them startles arriving
[[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Harry Potter|Harry]], [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Ron Weasley|Ron]], and [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Hermione Granger|Hermione]] are captured by Snatchers when Harry accidentally speaks Voldemort's name. One of the Snatchers is [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Fenrir Greyback|Fenrir Greyback]] who, suspecting Harry's identity, has his five prisoners, Harry, Ron, Hermione, [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Dean Thomas|Dean Thomas]], and [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Griphook|Griphook]] taken to Malfoy Manor. There, Lucius, Draco, and Narcissa are unable to positively identify Harry, whose face had been jinxed by Hermione right before their capture, though they do identify Hermione and Ron. Arriving on the scene, [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Bellatrix Lestrange|Bellatrix Lestrange]] spies the [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Magic/Sword of Gryffindor|Sword of Godric Gryffindor]], and immediately thinks that it has been extracted from her
Meanwhile, Dean, Harry, Ron, and Griphook had been taken to a basement room where [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Luna Lovegood|Luna Lovegood]] and [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Ollivander|Mr. Ollivander]] are locked up. Luna helps free them from their bonds. Harry, looking at the mirror shard he had gotten from [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Sirius Black|Sirius]], sees a sky-blue eye in it, and pleads for help. The eye vanishes.
Hermione has, through her pain, told Bellatrix that the Sword is fake; Bellatrix sends Draco to fetch Griphook to verify this. Harry tells Griphook to corroborate Hermione's claim; then Draco arrives and hauls Griphook away. [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Dobby|Dobby]] [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Magic/Apparation|appears]] in the basement just as Draco leaves. Dobby, though fearful at being back in his old home, says he has been sent to rescue Harry Potter. Harry confirms that
With Wormtail's wand, Harry and Ron make their way upstairs and overhear Griphook confirming that the Sword is a fake, whereupon Bellatrix
== Analysis ==
Throughout the series, the Malfoy family is presented as being rich, and buying influence through carefully placed (and presumably invisibly entailed) donations to worthy causes. Given this characteristic, one can expect that the Malfoy residence would be opulent, possibly even ostentatious. When we eventually see Malfoy Manor, then, we are unsurprised by the size and grandeur, or even by the albino peacocks, though twice Death Eaters are surprised by them. One suspects, even, that the albino peacocks were placed on the grounds by the author specifically to indicate the ostentation of the Malfoy family. It seems that having peacocks on the estate is a hallmark of the old, established noble English family. Albino peacocks, being much rarer and more expensive, thus must be even better.
When we see Lucius Malfoy in ''Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows'', it is mentioned that he seems a prisoner in his own house. We are aware that he had been captured in the [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Places/Ministry of Magic|Ministry]] with a number of other Death Eaters at the end of [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Books/Order of the Phoenix|''Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix'']], and had been sentenced to [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Places/Azkaban|Azkaban]]. Events lead us to believe that he was part of an unpublicized mass breakout from Azkaban, and so presumably must remain hidden in fear of re-arrest. One wonders why he alone among those who have escaped from Azkaban seems to be restricted in his travels; speculation on that topic will be found in the character write-up for [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Lucius Malfoy|Lucius Malfoy]]. However, it is worth noting that even a house as grand as Malfoy Manor appears to be, can be quite confining when one is not allowed to leave it.
== Questions ==
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{{Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Intermediate Spoiler}}
It is noted elsewhere that Voldemort had found his own ancestral home, [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Places/Riddle Manor|Riddle Manor]], possibly too far from the center of the Wizarding world to be of much use as a base of operations. One gets the feeling that Malfoy Manor is equally remote from London. Given this, why would Voldemort select Malfoy Manor as his headquarters? It is safe to assume that Voldemort likes his creature comforts as much as anyone, and therefore is likely to select a residence that is already equipped with all necessary conveniences. Add to this the fact that Riddle Manor is unprotected from passing strangers, and Malfoy Manor already has high walls and gates, and probably a reputation as not being a good place for Muggles to observe too closely, and we can see that taking over the Malfoy residence is much more appealing.
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