Tom Felton Has a TikTok, and It’s the Best Thing to Happen to Harry Potter This Year

These days it's hard for Potterheads to enjoy their own fandom—ya know, with J.K. Rowling's recent comments about trans people. But one thing is sustaining us: Tom Felton's TikTok. 

Who knew Draco Malfoy would be the one to save the Harry Potter franchise? The 33-year-old actor joined TikTok in July, immediately hitting it out of the park by attempting to stop the rain outside his home using his wand from the movies. “Just give me a few tries, it's been a while,” he says in the video. Oh, muggles…

Felton did take a break from posting new Harry Potter–related videos to share music, old behind-the-scenes footage, and a lot of Hamilton content. But by October, Felton started embracing his duty as the true ambassador of the Harry Potter franchise. Please watch his perfect reaction to one Draco Malfoy fan video.

It gets better. In another video, he encourages a young artist to sell her painting of his face. Draco Malfoy really said get your bag up! (The painting is of a different fictional Felton character, but this still counts; leave me alone.)

Now Felton is calling on Harry Potter fans to try to beat him in the #PottahChallenge, which is exactly what it sounds like. Do you think you can say Pottah more scathingly than Draco Malfoy himself? He would like to see it. 

There have also been a ton of other wildly entertaining Harry Potter–themed trends going around TikTok—like this sorting ceremony trend whereby users sort the Hogwarts houses into aesthetics.

Others have been pointing out other plot lapses and lack of representation in the Harry Potter universe by portraying themselves as students.

Draco Malfoy may be a Slytherin, but Tom Felton is clearly pure Gryffindor. Thank you, Tom, for getting a TikTok. The world desperately needed it!