Tom Felton (Draco Malfoy) makes Harry Potter references on The Flash…kinda
By Dan Selcke
The CW’s The Flash makes with the Harry Potter references when Tom Felton (Draco Malfoy) plays out his featured guest role on the show.
The CW is getting cute. Tom Felton, who memorably played Harry Potter’s nemesis Draco Malfoy in Warner Bros.’s hugely successful series of films, is currently starring on the show as Julian Desmond, a forensic scientist and rival to main character Barry Allen. In his off-time, he’s the supervillain Doctor Alchemy. (Will Felton be cast as rivals to heroes for the rest of his professional life? Stay tuned.) In “The Present,” the most recent episode of the show, Desmond and Allen have a conversation, and it sounds like the writers snuck in a little Harry Potter reference. You decide:
So Desmond is looking for “the Philosopher’s Stone.” As many Harry Potter readers know, the original title for Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone,the first book in the series, is Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone. Is the show having some fun here?
Maybe. The Philosopher’s Stone does play a part in the DC Comics history of the Doctor Alchemy character, so this could be a coincidence. Doctor Alchemy first appeared in 1958, so he’s been around for a lot longer than Harry Potter. Then again, might the casting people behind The Flash decide have decided to go after a Harry Potter vet for the part after they learned there would be a character who was going to talk about the Philosopher’s Stone? It feels like we’re on the verge of blowing open a conspiracy here.
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Unless someone comes forward, the mystery may have to endure. Either that, or we tweet Tom Felton and ask him if this is an in-joke. Go ahead, everybody—the truth must come out!