Draco Malfoy

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Malfoy is a good broomstick flyer and was even a Seeker on the Slytherin Quidditch team. Draco is a good student, especially excelling in Defense Against the Dark Arts and Potions. Malfoy also has a fairly high level of Occlumency. This skill fits perfectly with Draco's character. It was easy for him to "switch off" emotions, cut off and reject important parts of himself, which is necessary for Occlumency. Draco is the opposite - this is a clear example that denying pain and suppressing internal conflict can only lead to the destruction of the personality (which is more likely than harming others)

Malfoy was lucky to meet Harry Potter at the very beginning of his school years. Mental comparison with this friend-enemy makes Draco develop spiritually for six years. Perhaps this comparison reached its peak in the fifth year, when Draco becomes both the head of the faculty and the favorite of the new director, gains power over all the students of Hogwarts (the status of a member of the Inspection Squad gave many privileges), wins the favor of Minister Fudge, and feels behind him not only the power of his father, but also the shadow of Voldemort's power. And Harry, who has none of this, again comes out the winner. In addition, Draco, who had risen so high, had to fall painfully at the end of the year: Umbridge was fired from Hogwarts, Fudge from the post of minister, his father was imprisoned in Azkaban. And such abrupt changes always give food for thought. Subsequent entry into the ranks of the Death Eaters, the task given by the Dark Lord, the real danger hanging over the Malfoy family in the event of failure to complete this task, finally pull Draco out of childhood and force him to rethink many things. It is not for nothing that a year later - this is already a completely different Draco. And now Harry, who has long since learned all these "lessons of life", sincerely sympathizes with Malfoy, understanding the choice the Master put the young man before. Draco's bad character is largely not his fault, but the result of erroneous principles of upbringing in his family. However, to be honest, a huge plus of the Malfoy family is that they really love each other. The fear that something terrible can happen to him and his family serves as sufficient motivation for Draco. At the same time, Narcissa Malfoy lies to Voldemort's face at the end of the seventh book and tells him that Harry is dead only in order to get to her son and save him.

Draco Malfoy has a complex character, which is a mixture of both positive and negative qualities. In addition, the boy is growing up, and with this growth, some traits of his nature become more pronounced, while others, on the contrary, fade away. The character of young Malfoy was very clearly revealed twice: when meeting Harry Potter in Madame Malkin's shop and in an attempt to continue this acquaintance on the Hogwarts Express. [3] He is arrogant, ambitious, pretends to be a "tough guy" and is not yet mentally developed.

Gradually, life teaches Draco lesson after lesson, which he does not learn at first. It is very difficult for a spoiled offspring of an ancient aristocratic family to understand that neither great wealth, nor high social status, nor even great meanness can make you a winner, give you power over the world and people, or even just give you what you want. Sometimes you need to change yourself for this. And Draco changes. True, very slowly. Sometimes, when his actions are out of step with the image of a "high-born pure-blooded aristocratic wizard", Draco gets an inferiority complex and begins to prove to everyone around him that it was an unfortunate accident. He clings for a long time and stubbornly to those qualities that were instilled in him by his family. Malfoy was lucky to meet Harry Potter at the very beginning of his school years. Mental comparison with this friend-enemy over the course of six years makes Draco develop spiritually. Perhaps the peak of this comparison was reached in the fifth year, when Draco became both the head of the faculty and the favorite of the new headmaster, gained power over all the students of Hogwarts (the status of a member of the Inspection Squad gave many privileges), won the favor of Minister Fudge, and felt behind him not only the power of his father, but also the shadow of Voldemort's power. And Harry, who had none of this, again emerged victorious. In addition, Draco, who had risen so high, had to fall painfully at the end of the year: Umbridge was fired from Hogwarts, Fudge from his post as minister, his father was sent to Azkaban. And such abrupt changes always give food for thought.

Draco is tall and thin, with sleek blond hair, a pointed face, cold grey eyes, pale skin, fine features and a sharp nose. He is aristocratic and pompous, considering himself superior to others due to his blood status. When he is embarrassed or angry, pink spots appear on his pale cheeks. He has a habit of drawling his words.

Draco knows something about Black from his father, so he doesn’t miss the opportunity to hint to Harry that Sirius’s crime is related to his dead parents. But Harry has no idea about this story, and therefore all of Malfoy’s taunts (“I wouldn’t forgive him, I would track him down myself”) only leave Potter perplexed. But Harry, without even knowing it, punishes Draco for his meanness. During another Quidditch match, Malfoy and three other Slytherins dress up as Dementors, believing that Potter will get scared again and fall off his broom again, like at the Gryffindor-Hufflepuff match. If Harry was scared just by the sight of these creatures, something might have worked out. But the Dementors plunge Potter into his most terrible memory; when they appear, he hears the last screams of his parents, and that’s why he loses consciousness. Harry reacts to the false "Dementors" in a completely different way: he summons a Patronus (by the way, this is the first time he has managed to do this so easily) and, not paying any more attention to them, catches the Snitch. The Slytherins, floundering in their robes, receive a scolding from the Head of Gryffindor, who also deducts penalty points from them, and later, one must assume, from the Head of his own House.

Upon arrival at Hogwarts, Draco begins to ridicule Harry's reaction to the Dementors patrolling the castle and Hogsmeade to catch Sirius Black, who escaped from Azkaban, despite the fact that he himself is no better. No, Malfoy does not faint like Potter, but he is so scared that he runs for protection into the compartment of the most Gryffindor Gryffindors - Fred and George. Draco is ashamed of this act. After all, he is trying to prove to everyone that he is brave, strong, unique. And then he made such a fool of himself. So he entertains the Slytherins for several days with a pantomime on the theme of "Harry Potter faints at the sight of Dementors." During Care of Magical Creatures classes, Draco, trying to compete with Potter in "coolness", provokes the hippogriff Buckbeak, and he attacks him. Although Draco's wounds are minor and were quickly healed by Madam Pomfrey, he makes every effort to demonstrate his physical suffering in order to increase the consequences of this incident for Hagrid. Throughout the school year, Draco occasionally speaks extremely disparagingly of Professor Hagrid, cherishing the hope that this "uncouth blockhead" will soon leave Hogwarts. Until he gets on Hermione's nerves. The girl, in front of Crabbe and Goyle, gives the lying Malfoy a good slap. Nevertheless, Draco does not respond to Hermione in any way. Not with fists, not with spells. But he could. And he certainly understood perfectly well that inaction against the "Mudblood" who hit him lowers him in the eyes of his accomplices. However, young Malfoy's upbringing does not allow him to hit the girl. Still, Draco has positive traits, at least the concept of honor is not alien to him. But he never tires of pestering his father about Hagrid and Buckbeak. And Lucius does everything to ensure that the innocent animal is executed. True, by the time of the execution it disappears without a trace (not without the help of Harry and Hermione), but this is not at all Mr. Malfoy's fault.

In fact, the opening of the Chamber of Secrets was part of Draco's father's plan to eliminate Albus Dumbledore, who was inconvenient for him, from the post of Headmaster of Hogwarts. For this purpose, back in August, he plants Tom Riddle's Diary, which Voldemort left for him to keep, on Ginny Weasley, killing two birds with one stone: unrest at school will lead to the Headmaster's forced resignation, and the hated Weasley family will disgrace their title of defenders of mudbloods when it is discovered what their daughter has done. However, Draco was not privy to these plans. Knowing his son's character, Lucius did not reveal his secret plans to him, so that he would not inadvertently blurt out too much. After his plans were revealed, Lucius was expelled from the Hogwarts Board of Governors, which greatly affected Draco. Now he "stopped walking around the school as if all of Hogwarts was his fiefdom," and became resentful and sullen.

In his second year, to secure Draco's coveted spot as Seeker on the Slytherin Quidditch team, his father gives each member of the Slytherin team a flying broom of the latest model, the Nimbus 2001. The new Seeker is quick to brag about it to everyone. Draco doesn't understand his father's political games. After all, Lucius is not so much giving his son a gift as trying to raise his own image with Draco's help. It's not a bad idea to hear someone say, "Oh, that's that same Lucius Malfoy, he has a son who is Seeker on the Slytherin team, the one that won the school cup this year!" Especially when you're trying to remove the headmaster of that very school.

This year, a certain "Heir of Slytherin" opens the Chamber of Secrets, attacks on students begin, and fear settles in Hogwarts. Draco is impressed by the atmosphere at the school. In the newly organized Duelling Club, Draco fights Harry Potter and during the fight, he summons a snake. Unexpectedly for everyone, Harry begins to speak to it in Parseltongue. This makes many students wonder if Harry is the real Heir of Slytherin. However, Harry, Ron, and Hermione think that Draco is the Heir of Slytherin, since he is intolerant of Muggle-borns, and his entire family has always been sorted into Slytherin. Hermione prepares Polyjuice Potion so that Harry and Ron, posing as Crabbe and Goyle, can question Malfoy for details. But from this conversation, the friends learn that Draco is not really the Heir and has no idea who opened the Chamber or why. Although he assures that he would gladly help this man. The only valuable information that Draco managed to learn from his father is that the Chamber was last opened 50 years ago, and then one of the mudbloods was killed.

When sorted into houses, Draco ends up in Slytherin, like many members of his family. His friends are also enrolled in the same house.

Gradually, the mutual hostility between Harry and Draco grows. Twice Draco tries to get Harry expelled. Thus, in the fall, he challenges him to a night duel, but, having informed his dean that Potter will be in the Hall of Awards that night, he does not show up. This was just bait for Harry, so that he would be caught walking along the corridors at the wrong time. Later, Draco learns that Hagrid is raising a baby dragon, Norbert, in his hut. And since breeding dragons is illegal, Harry, Ron and Hermione persuade Hagrid to give the baby to a reserve in Romania, where Ron's brother, Charlie, works. Draco accidentally gets a letter from Charlie, in which he stipulates where and when his friends will pick up the "contraband" beast. Draco gives up the hated Potter to his superiors, but he himself is punished: impatient to see the defeated Harry himself, young Malfoy also finds himself in the middle of the night not in his bedroom. As punishment, all four (Harry, Hermione, Draco and Neville Longbottom, who tried to warn his friends about Draco's insidious plans) go to the Forbidden Forest to help Hagrid look for the wounded unicorn. Such punishment caused fear and feigned indignation in Draco. And in vain. Perhaps this was his last chance to become Harry's friend, if at the right moment he had the courage to stay with Harry and meet the danger shoulder to shoulder.

In addition, Draco never tires of mocking and teasing Ron Weasley's poverty and Neville Longbottom's weaknesses. While Ron is still ready to give a worthy rebuff to the enemy (in fact, he simply throws his fists at him), Neville becomes a punching bag. Draco constantly bullies the vulnerable boy, sharply pointing out and ridiculing his shortcomings, making fun of his insecure and withdrawn nature and practicing new spells on him.

Draco is one of the best students, and due to his belonging to a completely magical family, he knows a lot about the magical world, its inhabitants, and magical objects. He enjoys the patronage of Severus Snape, who was a school friend of Draco's father, Lucius Malfoy, and was also a former member of the Death Eaters.

Before entering Hogwarts in 1991, Draco and his parents go to Diagon Alley to buy school supplies. And there, in Madam Malkin's shop, he meets Harry Potter. Harry has somehow really interested Draco. And in order to make the strongest impression on his new acquaintance, young Malfoy pretends to be a "tough guy", pretends that the whole world revolves around him, and such people as Muggle-born wizards or, for example, Rubeus Hagrid are not worth his little finger. This attitude towards others sets Harry against Draco, who reminds him very much of his cousin Dudley, and his sarcasm towards Hagrid, Potter's first and, so far, only friend, is completely off-putting.

Later, on the Hogwarts Express, Draco openly offers Harry friendship, still unaware of how unattractive the black-haired boy is. Along the way, he casually insults Ron Weasley, who is sitting in the compartment and with whom Harry has already become friends. Harry refuses Malfoy friendship and does not shake his hand back. The young scion of an ancient pure-blooded family of wizards will never forgive such an insult. From now on, Potter and Malfoy can only be enemies. Draco's behavior at school was largely modeled on the behavior of the most impressive person he knew - his father - and he closely copies Lucius's coldness and contemptuous manner towards everyone outside his immediate circle. Deciding to recruit a second henchman (Crabbe had held the position before Hogwarts) on the train to school, the less physically imposing Malfoy uses Crabbe and Goyle as both henchmen and bodyguards.

It is known that Draco Malfoy was born on June 5, 1980.

The only child of Lucius Malfoy and Narcissa Malfoy (née Black), who were born into ancient pure-blood wizarding families.

Draco Malfoy grew up an only child at Malfoy Manor, a magnificent estate in Wiltshire that had been in his family for centuries. From the time he could speak, he knew he was triply special: first, he was a wizard, second, he was a pureblood, and third, he was a Malfoy. Draco grew up regretting that the Dark Lord had not succeeded in leading the wizarding community, although he was constantly reminded that such thoughts should not be expressed outside his family and a small circle of friends; otherwise, "Daddy would be in trouble." As a child, Draco socialised with the scions of pure-blood families like his father, former Death Eaters, and arrived at Hogwarts with a small circle of friends that included Theodore Nott and Vincent Crabbe.

Like any other child Harry Potter's age, Draco had heard stories of the Boy Who Lived throughout his childhood. Over the years, there had been many different theories among the wizarding world about how Harry had survived the deadly attack, and one of the most persistent was that Harry himself was a great Dark wizard. The fact that he was isolated from the wizarding community seemed to support this view to all who wished to believe so, and Draco's father, the wily Lucius Malfoy, was one of those most willing to support this theory. He consoled himself with the thought that he, Lucius, might be given a second chance at world domination if this Potter boy turned out to be another, even greater pureblood leader. So, knowing that if he did nothing, his father would certainly not approve, and also in the hope that he would be able to bring home some interesting news.

Draco is a member of a pure-blood wizarding family, including Sirius Black, Nymphadora Tonks, Andromeda Tonks, Bellatrix Lestrange, and is distantly related to the Weasley and Potter families, as well as many other wizarding families.

Most of his relatives shared Voldemort's ideas about the privileges of pure-blooded wizards and sided with the Dark Lord during the First Wizarding War. It is known that Draco Malfoy was born on June 5, 1980.

The only child of Lucius Malfoy and Narcissa Malfoy (née Black), who were born into ancient pure-blood wizarding families.

Draco Malfoy grew up an only child at Malfoy Manor, a magnificent estate in Wiltshire that had been in his family for centuries. From the time he could speak, he knew he was triply special: first, he was a wizard, second, he was a pureblood, and third, he was a Malfoy. Draco grew up regretting that the Dark Lord had not succeeded in leading the wizarding community, although he was constantly reminded that such thoughts should not be expressed outside his family and a small circle of friends; otherwise, "Daddy would be in trouble." As a child, Draco socialised with the scions of pure-blood families like his father, former Death Eaters, and arrived at Hogwarts with a small circle of friends that included Theodore Nott and Vincent Crabbe.

Like any other child Harry Potter's age, Draco had heard stories of the Boy Who Lived throughout his childhood. Over the years, there had been many different theories among wizards about how Harry had survived the deadly attack, and one of the most persistent was that Harry himself was a great Dark wizard. The fact that he had been isolated from the wizarding community seemed to support this view to all who wished to believe so, and Draco's father, the wily Lucius Malfoy, was one of those most willing to support this theory.