Harry Potter character Narcissa Malfoy, the mother of Draco Malfoy, was named after Narcissus, and was described as being incredibly vain and arrogant.

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* Blagging: No player may seize any part of an opponent's broom to slow or hinder the player ( Draco Malfoy commits this foul in Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, thus preventing Harry from seizing the Snitch ).

Several times in the series, characters have been shown to either suspect or in some other fashion " sense " that Harry is wearing his cloak: Snape is seen to be suspicious when being followed by Harry, even reaching out to grab at ( what would appear to be ) thin air ; in Half-Blood Prince, Draco Malfoy realises Harry is in his train carriage and successfully immobilises him with a Petrificus Totalus ( Body-Bind ) curse, despite Harry wearing his cloak ; and in The Chamber of Secrets, Albus Dumbledore senses Harry and Ron beneath it in Hagrid's cabin while talking to Lucius Malfoy during the event when Cornelius Fudge comes to take Hagrid to Azkaban and Lucius Malfoy hands over to Dumbledore his suspension letter.

A further example comes from Ancient Greece, where the Athenian legal system was first written down by Draco in about 621 BC: the death penalty was applied for a particularly wide range of crimes, though Solon later repealed Draco's code and published new laws, retaining only Draco's homicide statutes.

*" The Power of Love ", by Draco and the Malfoys ( 2007 )

Beginning at the north, Lyra is bordered by Draco, Hercules, Vulpecula, and Cygnus.

Thuban also known by its Bayer designation Alpha Draconis ( α Draconis, α Dra ) is a star ( or star system ) in the constellation of Draco.

This assumption is supported by the fact that the Dacian standard, the Dacian Draco, had a wolf head.

* 621 Draco, Athenian lawgiver, issues code of laws where everything is punishable by death – Draconian

Originally the axones recorded laws enacted by Draco in the late 7th Century ( traditionally 621 BC ).

* Monomethylhydrazine ( MMH ) + nitrogen tetroxide ( NTO )-smaller engines and reaction control thrusters: Apollo Command Module reaction control system ; Space Shuttle OMS and RCS ; Ariane 5 EPS ; Draco thrusters used by the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft.

As he was finishing the record, the singer was contacted by FIFA to write a song for the 1998 World Cup ; Martin subsequently wrote " La Copa de la Vida " with K. C. Porter and Draco Rosa.

It contained material by writers and producers such as Desmond Child, Diane Warren, William Orbit, George Noriega and his longtime childhood friend Draco Rosa.

The positions of the constellations, north of the ecliptic, are described by reference to the principal groups surrounding the north pole ( Ursa Major, Ursa Minor, Draco, and Cepheus ), whilst Orion serves as a point of departure for those to the south.

The city lost even its ancient and original name that was forgotten, named Porto Leone by the Venetians in 1317, meaning ' Lion's Port ' from the Piraeus Lion standing at the harbour's entrance, and Porto Draco by the Franks.

In the 2005 film Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, New College Cloisters served as the Hogwarts background for some scenes, notably that in which Draco Malfoy is transformed into a ferret by Mad-Eye Moody.

The " dragon " is often understood as the starry constellation Draco and by extension it represents the cosmic axis ( equivalent to the north / south pole ) because this constellation coils around the North Star and thus around the celestial axis, as it intersects the northernmost part of the celestial sphere.

He is best known for playing the role of Draco Malfoy in the Harry Potter film series, the film adaptations of the best-selling Harry Potter fantasy novels by author J. K. Rowling, for which he auditioned at age twelve.

The Kzinti reappear in the comic The Wristwatch Plantation, also by Niven ( and which included the Bebebebeque from his Draco Tavern stories ).

Fleming also used historical references for some of his names and Marc-Ange Draco's name is based upon that of El Draco, the Spanish nickname for Sir Francis Drake, a fact also used by J. K. Rowling for the naming of her character Draco Malfoy.

She and her sister Lila, along with several other village girls, have been kidnapped by the men of the warlord, Draco, to be sold as slaves.

A possible theory is that the Romans brought the emblem to what is now Wales during their occupation of Britain in the form of the Draco standards born by the Roman cavalry, itself inspired by the symbols of the Dacians or Parthians.

It was named by Fyodor Dus-Chotimirsky in 1901, who noticed a resemblance between Black's kingside pawn structure ( pawns on d6, e7, f7, g6 and h7 ) and the stars of the Draco constellation.

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