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Draco Malfoy is one of the main villains in the Harry Potter series. Here are some facts about him that individuals who haven’t read the books won’t know.
Draco Malfoy is up there among the worst Harry Potter characters. While he isn’t as frigid as Lord Voldemort. He lacks Bellatrix Lestrange’s unrestrained villainy, and he isn’t as loathsome as Dolores Umbridge. The Slytherin student is nonetheless a rather terrible man.
He bullies almost everyone at Hogwarts and parades around with an air of superiority, bragging about his family’s position as one of the few pure-blooded wizarding broods.
Tom Felton played Draco in all eight films well. But not every element from the original book made it to the big screen. Here are a few things about the character that only those who have read the novels will be familiar with.
Tanner Fox updated this on March 2nd, 2022: Draco Malfoy had no option but to become a villain from an early age, influenced by his blood-purity-obsessed father and effectively raised to be a significant part of the Dark Lord’s return.
However, while he plays that character flawlessly the majority of the time. He has a good-natured side to him that got him through to the finish of the seven-part novel series.
Draco Malfoy: He meets Harry Potter before he joins Hogwarts.
Harry and Draco first meet in the Entrance Hall at Hogwarts in the film The Sorcerer’s Stone. Malfoy offers friendship here. But is turned down by the Boy Who Lived, who refuses to shake his hand after watching him make insults about Ron Weasley. However, things are not the same in the novel.
Harry and Draco first meet in Diagon Alley, in Madam Malkin’s Robes for All Occasions. Unintentionally, Draco makes his future adversary appear thick and naive by lecturing about the wizarding world. Blind to the fact that Harry is still getting his head around it all.
Draco Malfoy: When Buckbeak escaped, he was furious.
During the events of Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, Draco almost kills Buckbeak the Hippogriff. The beast replied by slicing the Slytherin student with his massive talons when the Slytherin student insulted him. Buckbeak was put to death by the Ministry of Magic as punishment for this, despite the fact that he was provoked. This was a tremendous miscarriage of justice.
Fortunately, Harry and Hermione come to the rescue with a time-turner. What the film doesn’t show is how furious Draco and his father were when they learned of Buckbeak’s remarkable escape. Despite this, the two were practically unable to intervene, which must have fueled their rage.
Draco Malfoy: He Meets Harry While Death Eaters Cause Havoc
In the film adaptation of Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, the Quidditch World Cup devolves into pandemonium. Vile Death Eaters are on the rampage, desperate to pick up muggle-borns and send a message to the rest of the world. While Lord Voldemort is no longer alive, their devotion for him and his perverted philosophy endures.
Draco Malfoy meets Harry, Ron, and Hermione in the woods while the Death Eaters are on the loose in the novel of the same name. He teases them and tells Hermione in particular that she will be of considerable interest to them. They suppress the temptation to respond, instead of fleeing into the darkness, desperate not to be apprehended.
Draco Malfoy: He Assisted Discredit for Rita Skeeter Harry
Rita Skeeter is an awful journalist who delights in creating slanderous, horrifying, and inaccurate articles about the wizarding world’s heroes. During Harry’s fourth year in the castle. She makes life more unpleasant for him by pursuing a hatred agenda against the Boy Who Lived.
This does not occur in the Goblet of Fire film, though it is briefly mentioned. According to the source material. Draco is serving as an informant for Rita, feeding her all the newest news and gossip about Harry in order to undermine him during his Triwizard Tournament campaign. Hermione finally discovers Rita is an Animagus and, rather than telling the world, uses it to blackmail her later on.
Harry’s Son Befriends His Son
Harry, Ron, Hermione, and Draco’s post-Hogwarts lifestyles are briefly mentioned towards the conclusion of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows and the accompanying two-part film version. While the techniques utilized to age the performers in the film were questionable, the sequences were still moving.
What moviegoers may not realize is that Albus. Harry’s son, becomes close friends with Scorpius. The son of Malfoy. It’s a clever reversal of the iconic rivalry that began very immediately between Harry and Draco, albeit only those who read or watched Harry Potter and the Cursed Child will be aware of this.
Draco Malfoy: On the Hogwarts Express, Harry takes a beating.
At the conclusion of his fourth year, Harry is unhappy, with Lord Voldemort’s reappearance and Cedric Diggory’s death having major ramifications for the wizarding world. But, being the bully that he is, Draco tries to make fun of the Boy Who Lived and Cedric on the train ride back from Hogwarts. Unfortunately for him, things do not go as planned.
Before he can continue speaking, Harry, Ron, Hermione, Fred Weasley, and George Weasley all assault him. Leaving Draco severely wounded and injured. You’d think he’d learn his lesson after this. But he still acts like he’s something unique. Isn’t it true that leopards can’t alter their spots?
He got Harry kicked out of Quidditch.
Draco’s attempt to taunt Harry on the train home from Hogwarts after his fourth year isn’t the only time he does it. He does it again during the Order of the Phoenix book, mocking him for the death of his parents and also taking aim at the Weasley twins following Slytherin’s defeat to Gryffindor in their Quidditch matchup.
Harry, Fred, and George all respond violently, and as a result, they are barred from participating in Quidditch. Dolores Umbridge relishes striking them down, protecting Malfoy despite the fact that he had provoked them.
Harry is suspended until the end of the year and takes over as Gryffindor Quidditch captain in the summer, succeeding Angelina Johnson.
He Threatens To Launch A Werewolf Attack
Fans of the Harry Potter films will recall that Draco assists the Death Eaters in entering Hogwarts by mending an ancient pair of disappearing cabinets. The first is in the Room of Requirement, while the second is at Borgin & Burkes.
When Draco believes Borgin isn’t being of much use to him, he threatens him with violence.
He specifically threatens a werewolf assault, which Fenrir Greyback would carry out. Greyback is close to the Malfoys and would almost certainly have done Draco’s bidding.
The werewolf does appear in the hit film Half-Blood Prince, but he gets very little screen time. The character is significantly underutilized in the next four movies of the series in comparison to his position in the novels.
He forced Crabbe and Goyle to drink Polyjuice Potion.
Draco abandons his studies during his sixth year at Hogwarts. Instead, he devoted himself to restoring the two disappearing cabinets in a scheme that he anticipated would conclude with the death of Albus Dumbledore and gain him Lord Voldemort’s allegiance in the process. But, due to the magnitude of the operation, he can’t undertake it alone.
As a result, Malfoy convinces Crabbe and Goyle to consume Polyjuice Potion. This allows them to keep a watch on the Room of Requirement without raising suspicions.
Harry discovers this, but it’s too late, and Dumbledore is gone before the end of the year—albeit with Severus Snape, rather than Draco, carrying out the crime.
Ron punches him in the face.
After being almost roasted to death within the Room of Requirement, Harry, Ron, and Hermione save the lives of Draco and Goyle. This comes dangerously near to occur as a result of Crabbe performing an uncontrollable spell that ends up losing him his life.
Following that, Draco is shown pleading with a Death Eater to allow him to join their cause. When Ron notices this, he hits him in the face and calls him a “two-faced b****” This would have been entertaining and pleasant to witness.
But Warner Bros. decided against including it in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2. The vivid use of words might be one of the reasons.
He Was A Surprisingly Great Parent
Given his horrible and oppressive father image, one may think Draco Malfoy went on to be a lousy parent himself. That couldn’t be further from the truth, and while he married another pure-blooded witch. The two left the Malfoy family’s concern with blood purity behind.
Later, when his mother suffers from a familial curse, Scorpius is devastated, but Draco comes in to soothe him.
He exhibits the kind of warmth that he appeared incapable of displaying throughout his school years, highlighting how far he’s gone since The Battle of Hogwarts.
He Was At Hogwarts After Voldemort’s Death
When Voldemort dies, it’s a moment for both sadness and joy. Everyone in the wizarding world is overjoyed at his death. But saddened by the vast number of lives lost in combat, including Remus Lupin, Nymphadora Tonks, and Fred Weasley.
The Malfoys depart before the Dark Lord’s death in Deathly Hallows: Part 2. However, in the source material, Lucius, Narcissa, and Draco are all seen sitting in the Great Hall afterwards, questioning if they belong there.
It’s a tiny modification, though, and it’s possible that it was done simply to give the trio more closure.
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