Name: Declan Septimus Malfoy

Nicknames: No known nicknames

Life Span: 1979-Present

Nationality: Irish

Species: Wizard

Gender: Male

Sexuality: Gay

Zodiac Sign: Capricorn

Name Meanings: Declan means 'full of goodness', and Malfoy means 'bad faith'.

Personality: quiet, nervous, insecure, but also brave

Occupation(s): Professional Quidditch player

Family Members: Sorcha Malfoy (mother) 
                                      Cathair Malfoy (father) 
                                      Lucius Malfoy (cousin)
                                      Narcissa Malfoy (cousin)
                                      Draco Malfoy (cousin) 
                                      Other various Malfoy and Lestrange relatives

Fandom(s): Harry Potter

Appears in: Letters to Harry and Starting Over

Faceclaim: Damian McGinty (see photo above)

Quotes: "I wasn't sure we would ever get to talk in person. I...I've wanted to talk to you. Just walk up to you, and say what I wanted to say."

                  "Enough of this feeling sorry for myself. We have classes tomorrow, and we have to talk Quidditch, don't we?"

                  "Thanks to my horrible cousin and his horrible parents, Harry Potter has some sort of prejudice against the Malfoys."

                  "If you ever want to...you know, study for classes together or do something else...I wouldn't mind."

 From the author: I'll admit that Letters To Harry was a difficult book to write. It was my first actual HP fanfiction, and I ended up stumbling through a lot of it (and found myself looking back through my old copies of the books more than once). But I think it came out decent enough in the end.

 Writing about Declan was a little different than it was with my other main OCs, because he isn't officially introduced until about halfway through the story. For three of Harry's school years, he was just the mysterious D.M., whom Harry wrote back and forth with.

 Declan had a lot of insecurities in the beginning. He was a Hufflepuff in a family of Slytherins, and always felt different from everyone else, at home and at school. He was afraid to reveal the truth about himself to Harry, fearing Harry wouldn't trust him if he knew he was a Malfoy. But Declan began to grow more brave and confident as he got older, and Harry hardly even recognized him when they saw each other again at the end of the war.

 Declan is mentioned in Starting Over, and makes an appearance in the last chapter before the epilogue, when he says that he and Harry plan to get married at some point in the near future.