49 Facts About Draco Malfoy

Draco Lucius Malfoy is a fictional character in JK Rowling's Harry Potter series.

Draco Malfoy is a student in Harry Potter's year belonging in the Slytherin house.

Draco Malfoy is frequently accompanied by his two cronies, Vincent Crabbe and Gregory Goyle, who act as henchmen.

Draco Malfoy was played by Tom Felton in the Harry Potter film series.

Draco Malfoy serves as a foil to the hero, Harry Potter and is loosely based on bullies Rowling encountered during her school days.

Draco Malfoy, adhering to his family's beliefs, thinks that Muggle-born witches and wizards, which he and other characters derogatorily describe by the epithet Mudbloods, should be denied a magical education.

Philip Nel believes that Draco Malfoy is derived from the French phrase mal foi, meaning "bad faith".

Draco Malfoy eventually named his son for yet another constellation, Scorpius.

Draco Malfoy makes his first appearance in the series when he and Harry meet while being fitted for school robes at Madam Malkin's, a clothing shop in Diagon Alley.

Harry is alienated by the arrogance of Draco Malfoy, who asks whether the orphan's parents are "our kind".

Draco Malfoy then proclaims that "the other sort" should not be allowed at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, because "they've never been brought up to know our ways".

In Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, Draco becomes the new Seeker for the Slytherin Quidditch team after his father, Lucius Malfoy, donates new, high-quality Nimbus 2001 broomsticks.

When Hermione Granger comments that the Gryffindor players made the team through talent and not bribery, Draco Malfoy responds by calling her a Mudblood.

In Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, Draco Malfoy is named a Slytherin prefect along with Pansy Parkinson.

Draco Malfoy gets Harry and the Weasley twins banned from the Gryffindor Quidditch team when they attack him during a postmatch brawl after Draco insults their families following Gryffindor's win over Slytherin.

Draco Malfoy later joins Dolores Umbridge's Inquisitorial Squad, with whom he plays an important part in the exposure of Dumbledore's Army.

Draco Malfoy is drawn into Death-Eaters' activities more directly in Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince.

Draco Malfoy knows Harry is present and, once alone in the compartment, immobilises him and breaks his nose causing Harry to hate Draco Malfoy even more.

When Katie Bell is almost killed in Hogsmeade after handling a cursed necklace and Ron nearly dies by drinking poisoned mead, Harry suspects Draco Malfoy is behind both attacks.

Draco Malfoy reveals that he mended the broken Vanishing Cabinet in the Room of Requirement to act as a portal enabling Death Eaters to enter Hogwarts.

Draco Malfoy is hesitant to kill Dumbledore and he eventually lowers his wand.

The Malfoys remain reluctant followers of Voldemort, who now uses their home as his headquarters; Draco passes out after witnessing Voldemort murder Muggle Studies professor Charity Burbage.

Draco Malfoy is saved by Harry and Ron, the latter of whom punches Draco in the face under the invisibility cloak for attempting to appease the Death Eater.

Voldemort intended Draco Malfoy to die in the attempt to kill Dumbledore so that Lucius would be punished for his failure to retrieve the prophecy from the Ministry of Magic.

The wand's allegiance passes to whoever defeats its owner, so Harry, having taken Draco's wand at Malfoy Manor, became its new master; this prevents Voldemort from using its full power.

Draco Malfoy's hairline has receded, making his face look even more pointed.

Draco Malfoy had once considered the birth of his son as the greatest day of his life, even though Scorpius's birth had led to Astoria's health to be further weakened and eventually caused her to die fourteen years later.

Draco Malfoy was supportive of Scorpius's decision to befriend Harry's son Albus Severus, even though he and Harry had a history of animosity during their schooling years.

Draco Malfoy even trusted Albus to help Scorpius to heal him of his pain over losing his mother, and he valued his son's friendship to the point that he personally went to the Potter house to confront Harry, who tried to separate the two best friends apart.

Draco Malfoy was revealed to be constantly envious of how Harry had true friends like Ron and Hermione during his schooling years while he had only Crabbe and Goyle, who did not amount to being true friends for Draco.

Draco Malfoy won the MTV Movie Award for Best Villain for his portrayal as Malfoy in the 2010 MTV Movie Awards and the 2011 MTV Movie Awards.

Draco Malfoy was married to Astoria Greengrass, who had died, and has a son named Scorpius.

Draco Malfoy is described as a tall, slender boy with a pale, pointed face, sleek blond hair, and ice grey eyes.

Draco Malfoy is the prototypical spoiled, rich brat; he believes that his family's wealth and social position gives him the right to bully those poorer than himself, such as Ron Weasley.

Draco Malfoy insults Hermione Granger's Muggle-born status by referring to her as a "Mudblood", a term that, as stated by Hagrid, is one not used in civilised conversations.

Draco Malfoy made sure to discipline his son Scorpius to be a better child than he himself was in his youth, which made Scorpius to show kindness and become friends with Harry's son Albus Severus, as evidence of his reformation.

Draco Malfoy proved capable at Occlumency, which he learned from his Aunt Bellatrix.

The author said that this is due to Draco Malfoy being someone "very capable of compartmentalising his life and his emotions".

The Draco Malfoy family is one of the few remaining pure-blood wizarding clans in the Harry Potter series, and among the wealthiest.

Lucius Draco Malfoy was a Death Eater during both wizard wars.

Draco Malfoy marries Narcissa Black and together they have one son, Draco, who is the first Malfoy family member introduced in the series.

Draco Malfoy is, therefore, the scion of two old magical families.

The Draco Malfoy home, Draco Malfoy Manor, is an elegant mansion located in the western English county of Wiltshire.

Draco Malfoy constantly uses his elite status and his father's name and influence to gain advantages and to threaten others.

Draco Malfoy is parodied as Jerko Phoenix in the series Wizards of Waverly Place, during the episodes "Wizard School Part 1" and "Wizard School Part 2", in which Alex and Justin Russo go to a wizarding school named Wiz-tech, where everyone wears yellow and black robes, and glasses reminiscent of Harry Potter.

Draco Malfoy appears as Sacco in the Harry Bladder sketches in All That, in which Harry Bladder and other students often encounter Sacco's mischief-making.

Draco Malfoy was parodied in a Big Bite sketch, where he was known as Mailboy.

Draco Malfoy is different from all the other characters, simplistically made out of paper and is a smaller puppet, held and voiced by the Harry puppet.

Draco Malfoy has a very obvious crush on Hermione and spends a great deal of time posing and rolling around on the floor.