Draco Malfoy

 Draco Malfoy

Biographical information

Full Name

Draco Lucius Malfoy

Date of Birth

5 June 1980, Great Britain

Blood status

Pure-blood

Marital status

Married

Title(s)

• Perfect

• Seeker

Physical information

Species

Human

Gender

Male

Hair colour

White Blond

Eye colour

Grey

Skin colour

Pale

Family information

Children

Scorpius Malfoy (son)

Siblings

Hermione Malfoy (adoptive sister)

Parents

• Lucius Malfoy † (father)

• Narcissa Black-Malfoy † (mother)

Grandparents

• Abraxas Malfoy † (grandfather)

• Cygnus Black III † (grandfather) 

• Druella Rosier-Black † (grandmother)

Nephews/Nieces

Salazar Riddle (nephew)

Aunts/Uncles

• Bellatrix Black-Lestrange † (aunt)

• Rodolphus Lestrange (uncle)

• Andromeda Black-Tonks (aunt)

• Ted Tonks † (uncle)

Cousins

Nymphadora Tonks-Lupin † (cousin)

In-laws

• Lord Voldemort (brother-in-law)

• Daphne Greengrass (sister-in-law)

• Mr. Greengrass (father-in-law)

• Mrs. Greengrass (mother-in-law)

Relationships

Allies

• Malfoy family

• Hermione Malfoy (closest adoptive brother-sister relationship)

• Astoria Greengrass †

• Daphne Greengrass

• Lord Voldemort (possibly)

• Blaise Zabini

• Theodore Nott

Romances

• Hermione Malfoy (ex-crush)

• Astoria Greengrass † (wife)

• Pansy Parkinson (ex-girlfriend)

Enemies

• Harry Potter

• Weasley family

Magical characteristics

Wand

10", Hawthorn, unicorn hair

Patronus

None

Affiliation

House

Slytherin

Loyalty

• Malfoy family

• House of Black

• Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry

• Slytherin

• Slytherin Quidditch team

Draco Lucius Malfoy, born on June 5, 1980, stands as a quintessential pure-blood wizard and the esteemed heir of Lucius and Narcissa Malfoy. He grew up alongside his younger sister, Hermione Malfoy, in a household that fervently upheld the values of the Death Eaters. From an early age, Draco was instilled with an unwavering belief in the superiority of blood purity. Together with his sister, he attended Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry from 1991 to 1998, where he was proudly sorted into Slytherin House. At Hogwarts, he surrounded himself with a loyal group of friends, including Vincent Crabbe, Gregory Goyle, and Pansy Parkinson. Throughout his school years, his intense rivalry with Harry Potter, unlike her sister, not only defined his experience but also fueled his relentless ambitions, shaping the powerful wizard he would become.

As a prefect for Slytherin and a member of the Inquisitorial Squad in his fifth year, Draco was thrust into the spotlight. Yet, following the Battle of the Department of Mysteries, his father was imprisoned in Azkaban, leaving Draco under immense pressure. Lord Voldemort tasked him with rectifying Lucius’s failures, and by the age of sixteen, he took on the mantle of a Death Eater. Unfortunately, he quickly grew disenchanted with this dark path. Faced with the impossible task of assassinating Albus Dumbledore, Draco faltered, and that burden ultimately fell to Severus Snape. Reluctantly, he fulfilled his duties, driven by fear rather than conviction.

In a desperate attempt to escape Voldemort’s grip just before the conclusion of the Second Wizarding War, Draco and his family sought refuge but were ultimately captured. In a cruel twist, his sister Hermione was coerced into a marriage with Voldemort. Despite their parents’ unwavering efforts to thwart the marriage, they were met with failure. Lucius fought for his family's freedom, but it cost him his life; soon after, their mother also met a tragic end. Draco's harrowing journey through loyalty, fear, and disillusionment paints a compelling picture of a young man caught between his upbringing and the stark realities of a war-torn world.

Magical abilities and skills

Draco was a talented wizard from a young age and possessed several impressive magical abilities. His wand was made of hawthorn, which one should only ever consider placing in the hands of a witch or wizard of proven talent.

• Occlumency: In his sixth year, his Aunt Bellatrix taught him Occlumency to prepare him for his mission. As Draco had already shut down his compassion to become the bully he was, it was much easier for him to close his mind and disassociate from his emotions.

• Potions: He became very good with Potions at a fairly young age. This could be because Snape favoured Draco and might have given him extra help in his class. In any case, he was able to pass his O.W.L. examination in the subject with a mark of at least Exceeds Expectations and most likely Outstanding, since he was apparently not lacking a book or ingredients in Professor Slughorn's first class. When Professor Slughorn was teaching the subject, however, Draco seemed to have lost his edge as the best student, being as much as covered in "something like cat sick" during a mixed antidote composition, and producing a "merely passable" Hiccoughing Solution. Of course, this may be attributed to Draco's stress and disinterest in anything else that year.

• Defence Against the Dark Arts: Draco advanced to the N.E.W.T.-level class, so he achieved a high score on his O.W.L. exam. Though Draco was more interested in using dark magic than defending himself from it, he began to take the subject less seriously, despite Snape's attempts to convince him how important it was. His theoretical value in the course might have suffered as a result, despite showing practical expertise.

• Non-verbal magic: Draco mastered non-verbal spells before his sixth year, which included blocking jinxes non-verbally, which takes a lot of skill and concentration to do, and only a few in his year have done it.

• Quidditch: He was quite a fine Quidditch player. He started flying at a younger age, showing his skills in his first year. He made the team as a seeker in his second year, which was a very difficult position to acquire. Although his entrance into the team is enhanced due to his father bribing the team with the new Nimbus 2001 broomsticks, he also had sufficient talent, although Harry still surpassed him in pure skill despite Draco's alleged experience and superior broomstick in their first game against each other. When Draco refused to play during his sixth year, his team suffered greatly due to the fact that his replacement did a poorer job, suggesting that no Slytherin during his time was more skilled than him.

• Duelling: Draco had been a very competent duellist for quite a while, a skill probably inherited from his parents. He was able to cast the Leg-Locker Curse in his first year, something Rubeus Hagrid said no first year would be able to do. The very next year, he could cast such a powerful hex that it threw his opponent across the room. By his sixth year, Draco could perform multiple jinxes nonverbally, something most sixth years could not do whatsoever, whilst duelling Harry Potter. Draco duelled the highly competent Harry Potter four times and only lost once. He was beaten by Ginny Weasley in his fifth year.

• Transfiguration: Draco attended N.E.W.T.-level Transfiguration, meaning he achieved a high mark on his O.W.L. exam. In his second year, with some simple advice from Snape, he was able to conjure a snake, which was an advanced form of transfiguration learned in the sixth year and above (though in all fairness, this conjuration was rather simpler than most others).

• Charms: Draco was talented in charms, as he could cast the Dancing Feet Spell in his second year and the Tooth-Growing Spell in his second and fourth years, respectively, and used both in terms of attacking Harry. By his sixth year, he was able to cast the very difficult Protean Charm, something that the only known student of the same age capable of was her sister, Hermione (albeit, he was known to have mastered it one year later than she could).

• Unforgivable Curses: Draco learned how to cast at least two of the Unforgivable Curses in his sixth year (he was shown the effects of all three by Barty Crouch Jr in his fourth year Defence Against the Dark Arts): the Cruciatus Curse and the Imperius Curse. Both of these were extremely difficult Dark spells that not even many adult wizards can perform; his skilled Aunt Bellatrix might have taught him those while she was teaching him Occlumency and non-verbal spells. His Imperius Curse was strong enough to hold down Madam Rosmerta for almost an entire year, while he used the Cruciatus Curse to punish Thorfinn Rowle. He may have the capability (but not the willingness) to perform the Killing Curse as well, as he was assigned to kill Albus Dumbledore.

• Magical repair: Draco managed to repair the Vanishing Cabinet in his sixth year with some assistance from Borgin, though it did take him the majority of the year. The cabinet was smashed by Peeves in his second year, and Draco repaired it even though the magical link between the two cabinets might have been damaged.

• Alchemy: After graduating from Hogwarts, Draco began studying Alchemy as a hobby.