The news that Tom Felton is to reprise the part of Hogwarts villain Draco Malfoy in the Broadway run of Harry Potter and the Cursed Child has led some to wonder whether the “curse” in the title might, in fact, apply to the 37-year-old actor.

Alone among the Harry Potter cast who achieved mega-fame while still of school-going age in the early 2000s, there is a sense Felton is trapped in the Potterverse, never to escape. It’s as if the grudge-bearing Draco has taken his ultimate vengeance not on sworn enemy Harry but on the actor who played Malfoy, condemning him to be eternally synonymous with a character he first portrayed at age 12.

That is in contrast with the original bespectacled boy wizard, Daniel Radcliffe , who recently made a point of ruling himself out of participating i

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