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‘Malfoys’ Discuss Burdens of Harry Potter Characters

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Lucius and Narcissa Malfoy in Interview

Jill  Lawless | July 9, 2011 | Associated Press

So this is the face of evil: ice-blue eyes, an imperious brow, the sculpted features of Lucius Malfoy, the Muggle-hating wizard supremacist and implacable foe of Harry Potter.

As Malfoy, 48-year-old actor Jason Isaacs has plumbed his character’s dark heart and chilled millions of moviegoers since he appeared in “Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets” in 2002. So it comes as a surprise to hear the British performer renounce evil.

There is, he says, no such thing. Even arch-villain Lord Voldemort is not so much wicked as misguided.

“No one is ever bad,” said the disconcertingly genial Isaacs. “Voldemort sees the way the world ought to be, in his own eyes, and is trying to make it that way.”

Isaacs returns as Malfoy in “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2,” the last film in the magical saga, which premiered Thursday in London and opens around the world next week.

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