We ask Tom Felton: What Hogwarts house would you be in?

Actor Tom Felton is delving into the world of superfans in a BBC Three documentary which he presents and directs. Now, 14 years after making his Harry Potter debut as Slytherin baddie Draco Malfoy, we asked Tom the unthinkable… here’s what he had to say.

Well, you know I got stitched up with this. When we were filming the last sequences of me on the computer and me on the phone just to sort of fill in the documentary if we needed to, one of the cameramen put his laptop in front of me and just said have a little browse so we can just film it.

He opened up Pottermore, the site that deduces what house you should be in, and I thought, I’ve been avoiding this for quite a few years – sod it, let’s just do it and see what happens. Lo and behold, I got into Gryffindor, which I was quite upset about at the time. 

But I spoke to Jo Rowling about it the next day and said, maybe there’s a glitch in the system or the computer’s not working? But Jo simply said: “I could have told you that years ago, but I didn’t want to spoil your motivation as a villain”. I thought that was great.

Tom Felton directs and presents Tom Felton Meets the Superfans.

Tom Felton Meets the Superfans airs on Monday, 23 March at 9pm on BBC Three and will be available in BBC iPlayer for 30 days after broadcast on TV.

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