Draco Malfoy

Draco Malfoy

Background

Draco Malfoy is a wizard from house Slytherin and student at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. His father is Lucius Malfoy and he comes from a wealthy wizard family that are pure blood. Draco is friends with Crabbe and Goyle.

During the events of Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (2001) played by Tom Felton

The students arrive at the station and take boats to Hogwarts. Professor McGonagall tells the first year students that they must go through the process of being sorted into their respective houses and she explains the points system and the house that wins the most points will win the house cup. Draco makes a comment about Harry Potter, which causes the other students to exclaim and Draco introduces Harry to Crabbe and Goyle. When Ron Weasley snickers at Draco, Draco insults Ron and tells Harry some wizarding families are better than others. The first year students are brought into the Great Hall and brought to The Sorting Hat. Albus Dumbledore tells the first year students the rules including that the Dark Forest is off limits. The first to get sorted into their house is Hermione Granger, then Draco, Susan Bones, Ron, and Harry. Later, Madame Hooch teaches the students how to ride their broomsticks. Neville Longbottom loses control of his broomstick and eventually falls and breaks his wrist. While Madame Hooch is taking Neville to the hospital, Draco steal Neville's Remembrall. Harry flies after Draco and catches the Remembrall when Draco throws it into the air. As Harry, Ron and Hermione are walking back to the Gryffindor common room, they are stopped by Professor McGonagall who deducts points from both Gryffindor and Slytherin for Harry, Ron, Hermione and Draco, who tattled on them to Professor McGonagall, for being out past curfew and they are each given detention. For detention they are brought by Mr Filch to help Hagrid in the Dark Forest. Hagrid tells them Dumbledore made him send Norbert to Romania. They follow Hagrid and Fang into the forest and find unicorn blood and Hagrid tells them he found one dead a few weeks ago and their goal is to find the wounded unicorn. They split up and Harry and Draco go with Fang. They come across a robed figure hunched over the wounded unicorn and Fang and Draco run away, leaving Harry.

During the events of Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002) played by Tom Felton

Draco and Lucius enter Borgin & Burkes and Lucius sells some of his things to Mr Borgin in case his house is raided by the Ministry of Magic. At Flourish and Blotts, Draco and Lucius walk up to Harry and Lucius grabs Harry and uses the end of his cane to part Harry's hair to reveal his scar. Lucius tells Harry his scar is legendary as is the wizard who gave it to him and Harry calls Voldemort a murderer. When Lucius comments on Harry using Voldemort's name, Hermione mentions fear of a name only increases fear of the thing itself. Lucius insults Hermione and her parents and Ron and his siblings and grabs Ginny Weasley's second hand book and calls Mr Weasley a disgrace to wizards and puts Ginny's book back, plus another into her cauldron pail. As the Gryffindor Quidditch team walk into the practice green, Marcus Flint tells them they were given the practice time to train their new Seeker, Draco. Ron walks up with Hermione and asks how the Slytherin team got the Nimbus 2001's and Marcus tells him Lucius bought them for the team. Draco comments to Ron that his father can afford the best and Hermione accuses Draco of buying himself onto the team, to which Draco calls her a Mudblood. Ron tries to cast an Eat Slugs spell on Draco with his broken wand, which backfires, causing Ron to vomit up snails and the Slytherin team including Adrian Pucey, Slyth Beater No 1, Slyth Beater No 2, Slyth Beater No 3 and Slyth Keeper laugh. During a Quidditch Match, the Gryffindor team is overwhelmed by the Slytherin team with their faster broom sticks and Lee Jordan announces another point for Slytherin. During the game, Oliver Wood has his broom broken by a rogue Bludger. The Bludger chases after Harry who sees the Snitch and chases after it with Draco behind him. Draco crashes and so does Harry, but he manages to grab the Snitch anyways. Gilderoy Lockhart and Professor Snape introduce a Dueling Club so the students can practice defending themselves. Harry and Draco are pitted against each other and during the match, Draco creates a magic snake. The snake starts to slither towards Justin Finch-Fletchley and it appears that Harry is commanding the snake with Parseltongue. Professor Snape destroys the snake with a spell and Justin Finch-Fletchley angrily thinks Harry was sending the snake after him. Later Draco sees who he thinks is Crabbe and Goyle being questioned in the hall by Percy Weasley and walks back with them to the Slytherin common room. They ask Draco about who might be the heir of Slytherin, but Draco doesn't know. He does tell them Lucius said the Chamber of Secrets had been opened 50 years ago and a student expelled.

During the events of Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004) played by Tom Felton

Before the new school year feast, Draco asks Harry if he fainted when the Dementors came and Slytherin Boy makes fun of Harry. Hagrid takes the class to the woods and while they are walking Draco, who is standing next to Goyle and Crabbe, says that he is going to complain to Lucius that they allowed Hagrid to teach. Draco then makes fun of Harry and his encounter with the Dementors and the other Slytherin play along including Pansy Parkinson and Slytherin Boy. Hagrid introduces the students to Buckbeak as they stare in wonder, including Girl 1 and Boy 2. Harry is chosen to be the first student to interact with Buckbeak and Harry manages to make friends with Buckbeak and Buckbeak lets Harry ride on him. Buckbeak lands back on the ground and Draco arrogantly pushes the other students out of the way and walks up to Buckbeak, who attacks him and Hagrid is forced to take Draco to the hospital. During study hall, Pansy asks Draco if his arm hurts and he tells her Madam Pomfrey told him he could have lost his arm. Outside Hogsmeade Village, Draco, Crabbe and Slytherin Boy confront Ron and Hermione, who are looking at the Shrieking Shack and after Draco calls Hermione a mudblood, he is hit with a snowball. Crabbe, Slytherin Boy and Draco are pushed around and they run away. On the day of the execution, Ron, Hermione and Harry see Draco, Crabbe and Slytherin Boy standing on a hill overlooking the execution site and Hermione threatens Draco with her wand before punching him in the face.

During the events of Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (2005) played by Tom Felton

As Arthur takes the Weasleys, Harry and Hermione to their seats in the stadium for the Quidditch World Cup, Lucius and Draco make fun of how far away the Weasley seats are from the field. At Hogwarts, Dumbledore tells the students that Hogwarts will be hosting the Triwizard Tournament. Dumbledore introduces Madame Olympe Maxime and the students of the Beauxbatons Academy of Magic, including Fleur Delacour. He then introduces Igor Karkaroff and the students of Durmstrang, which includes Viktor Krum. The Goblet of Fire is brought into the hall and Dumbledore tells the students that whoever wins the tournament will have eternal glory. Alastor "Mad-Eye" Moody walks into the hall and is greeted by Dumbledore. Barty Crouch tells the students that no student under the age of 17 will be able to apply to participate for the Triwizard Tournament. In class, Moody introduces himself as the new Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher. He teaches the students about the Unforgivable Curses by using them on a tailless whip scorpion, which he taunts Draco with. Draco, who is with Crabbe and Goyle, taunts Harry's chances of surviving the Triwizard Tournament. Draco is about to cast a spell on Harry when Harry's back is turned when Moody sees him and transforms Draco into a ferret. McGonagall turns Draco back from a ferret and then chastises Moody.