WARNING:THIS POST HAS SPOILERS!!!!!
Draco Malfoy (born June 5, 1980) is one of the few obscure characters from J.K Rowling’s phenomenal world of Harry Potter. He is known to be a pure-blooded egotistical, cunning and prejudiced Slytherin. He was a perfect representative of the Hogwarts house he was placed into.
Draco Malfoy was also recognised as a clever wizard, specialising with Occlumency, potions, and non-verbal spells. He often came up with witty or sarcastic remarks, which his cronies, Crabbe and Goyle, found particularly comical.
Draco also proved to be more loyal to his family, than to his supposed master, Lord Voldermort. He took pride in being a pure-blood (being practically royalty in the wizarding world) and was also proud that he was his father’s son, seeing he boasted about his genealogy in several occasions.
In his early Hogwarts’ years, Draco was distinguished as cowardly and strongly biased. He had offered Harry Potter his friendship, which Harry had promptly rejected, not liking Draco’s arrogance. Harry’s rejection clearly had stuck with Draco, because he had lashed out on Harry and his friends (Ron Weasley and Hermione Granger) for the rest of his schooling years.
Draco obviously never let a chance pass when he could land Harry and his friends in trouble. He once plotted to get a hippogriff executed and the Cares of Magical Creatures teacher (Hagrid), sacked. This resulted Draco with a slap from Hermione Granger.
In his fifth year, Draco had been selected to be a part of Umbridge’s inquisitorial squad, along with a number of other Slytherins. Draco clearly enjoyed the powers that had came with the title, seeing he joyously deducted points of Gryffindor for insignificant reasons.
Draco’s sixth year was probably one of the most difficult times in Draco’s life. By Lord Voldemort, he was given the impossible mission: The assassination of Albus Dumbeldore. During the year Harry had a growing suspicion of Malfoy being a death eater, after encountering the Slytherin in Diagon Alley and eavesdropping on a conversation, in which Draco had hinted of mission, Harry had created an almost obsession, determined to find out what Malfoy was up to.
In the end of the sixth book, Harry had discovered that Malfoy was really up to no good. Draco had used a pair of vanishing cabinets as a pathway for death eaters to get into the Hogwarts castle.
Still, when he managed to get Dumbeldore alone (presumably) and disarmed, he was unable utter the killing curse at his headmaster. He was definitely unwilling to become a death eater, after seeing and knowing the consequences. His respect for his Dark Lord had been replaced by fear, and Draco had evidently only agreed to the mission in order to protect his family from being killed.
Deep inside, Draco had really only wanted to be loved or cared for, and had actually wanted to be in the light side of the wizarding war. This was all clear when he was facing Dumbeldore inside the astronomy tower. Their conversation was proof enough.
I think it would be safe to say that Draco Malfoy acted much like his mother’s cousin, Regulus Black.
In his seventh year Draco had attended which was then a very dark Hogwarts. The Malfoy manor was Voldemort’s Head Quarters. Unfortunately for Draco, he had been seeing a lot of the Dark Lord himself, and that alone must’ve caused unforgettable memories.
During the Easter holidays Harry, Ron and Hermione identities had been discovered and Draco had been called to prove the fact. He had apparently been somewhat unwilling to say their names, even though Hermione and Ron’s faces were clearly obvious. Harry and the others had escaped, but had left Draco wandless (he had later taken his mother’s) with Harry stealing it in the last minute.
Later in the year, Draco, Crabbe and Goyle had stayed behind in the castle while the rest of the students evacuated. They met Harry, Ron and Hermione in the room of requirement, and after a whole lot fire and narrowly-avoided curses, Draco and Goyle had managed to get away with the help of Harry, but had left Crabbe behind with his own cursed fire.
After the final battle, Draco and his family had narrowly avoided imprisonment in Azkaban only because of their abrupt change of loyalty and heart. During his Hogwarts years, Draco had been dating fellow Slytherin, Pansy Parkinson. But, their relationship apparently didn’t work out because he had married another pure-blood, Astoria Greengrass. The couple had one son, whom they named Scorpius Hyperion Malfoy.
Draco Malfoy may have been a conceited and cruel when he was young, but you can’t deny that you feel some pity or sympathy for all he’s suffered for. Seriously, I would hate to be him.
Threatened by the high mighty Lord Voldemort himself? No Thanks.
And living in the same place as him? I think I’ll let that pass.
I hope this made you understand the one and only Draco Malfoy better, and maybe even not hate him as much anymore.
Subject: draco malfoy (from harry potter) 
Wed Sep 23, 2009 10:47 am
