Tom Felton commented on the enigmatic new project J.K. Rowling is soon to announce, Pottermore, as well as his involvement in the Harry Potter series as Draco Malfoy, and whether he has learned to separate himself from the role, over the years at this weekend's Supernova fan exp in Australia. Highlights of the interview with Feltbeats can be read below.

Okay, so, have you heard about Pottermore?
Tom: Pottermore… Is this the new thing that J.K. is announcing next week? I saw this yesterday, this thing online saying J.K.’s going to announce something, and I here I am thinking, “Booyah! Book 8 on the way!” (laughs) But obviously, yeah, no. I don’t know!

Someone told me it could be an online socialising thing for Potter-people?Which sounds cool! I think there’s a massive gap in the market for that. Obviously there’s loads of websites that have done that to a certain extent, but to have one that’s like, officially got the stamp of approval from her, would be awesome, I think.

I recall you saying that you thought that portraying Draco had made you a nicer person, because you wanted to be kind of a bit more distant from that…
Tom: Yeah, ever since finishing him… I’ve been a complete ar----he. (laughs) I don’t know! There is actually some genuine argument there, although it’s just a nice, funny, story… I don’t know, there is something quite therapeutic about being an ar-- for half the day. Maybe I should look into doing some, what do they call it, anger management? Where you can go and like, shout at a punching bag. Go and smash up some plates. To be honest with you, I haven’t been too bad, but you know, I’m not in any rush to do any of that just yet (laughs)

But you originally auditioned for Harry and Ron, didn’t you?
Tom: Yes! Very true.

So do you think you would be a different person if you had been cast as one of them?
Tom: Well, one thing’s for sure, I’m very glad that I didn’t! You know, no one could have done the jobs as good as Daniel, or especially Rupert, you know, comedic genius, but yeah! No doubt things would have been very different. I’m not sure I would have rocked the ginger hair as well as I did the blond, but yeah. It’s kind of a weird one because we auditioned for so many parts as we first went in there, and we had no idea how important that casting process actually was, and that in eleven years we were still going to be taking about it.

There was never any certainty as to whether you’d continue on?
Tom: Well, this is the thing! People keep coming up to me and saying, “Thank you so much for being involved in something so important in my life”… I swear they don’t realise that these are the people that have allowed for the eight films to be made. Like, we said one film – we were only signed up for one film. It’s only because people were so passionate and excited! So this is my chance, really, to say thank you! You’re the guys that kept me going.

I remember around Goblet of Fire time, there was talk of changing the cast-
Tom: Yeah! Exactly! We all feared that after the fourth film that they were going to get rid of us and start again with new kids, so yeah, we’re very proud to have made it all the way through, so to speak.

When you watch the films, are you able to distance yourself?
Tom: A little bit! Yeah, I see Draco as a third person, although I see myself doing it, I don’t sort of look back and think, ah… I don’t look at anyone, because obviously I know Dan and Emma and Rupert very well, but when I see them on the screen, it’s Harry, Ron and Hermione, and I think it’s the same for them as well, so we can kind of distance ourselves from the parts, which is nice, you know. I think that usually, not that I’ve seen loads of other films that I’ve been in, that generally, you kind of cringe a bit and probably critique yourself pretty hard, but there’s something about Potter that you can just kind of let go and ride the waves, so it’s good.

This is a question from Twitter, because we put out a call yesterday for some. This is from a person whose name is @xxSve. What do you think about your character being so loved when J.K. Rowling said that that was a bad thing?
Tom: Yeah! It is kind of strange! It’s weird to have people, loads of people, loads of youngsters, actually, say, “Oh, you’re my favorite character” or “Draco was always my favourite character”, and I always think, like, “You know you’re not supposed to like Draco, you know that Harry’s the hero, I think? Draco should be the guy you don’t like…”. The thing is, I’m not sure what it says about the parents if a seven year old actually likes the villain more than the “good guys” so to speak. So it’s kind of a strange one… yeah. For some reason bad guys seem to get some love! People love bad guys. He’s not really a straight up “villain villain”, is he? Not all the way through, so yeah.

Tom's next scheduled fan convention will be the FanExpo in Toronto, Canada, from August 25-28, 2011. For more information and tickets, head here.

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