This article will mostly ignore the god-awful Harry Potter and the Cursed Child for the most part. While that travesty is considered canon, most of the fanbase considers the true series to lie within the novels. Harry and Ron eyed Malfoy from a distance in the epilogue and commented on the change they were seeing. This points toward Harry having not laid eyes upon Malfoy for a while by that point.
We could even disregard the play as JK Rowling has detailed what happened to Malfoy on her own, but the finality is that Draco settled down with his family for a quiet living. It was said his parents remained fanatically devoted to being a pureblood but Draco chose to overlook this aspect of his upbringing. Upon meeting him fully at Hogwarts in the first year, he attempted to befriend Harry but was shot down due to his rotten personality.
At the time, the Malfoys thought Voldemort had perished and there were whispers that Harry could be the next Dark Lord. It was purely for this assumption that Draco had considered making Harry an ally in the first place. The people who can see Draco for the terrible person he was in his school years sometimes mistake him for remaining this way throughout his life.
The reality is that Malfoy did feel some measure of guilt for all the evil deeds he had done in his youth. Excuses are made for the way Draco behaved in his school days, but nothing can change the fact that this boy was rotten to the core.
A part of him thought that being a pureblood meant he could get away with anything he did. His actions towards sending Harry and friends and inadvertently himself to the Forbidden Forest were the makings of a truly terrible child.
He provided material to Rita Skeeter to further denounce Harry in the eyes of the public in Goblet of Fire as well as starting the anti-Harry Potter movement. In Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince , Malfoy fidgeted around his arm at times as if attempting conceal the mark from others. In the films, this was shown to be the case when Malfoy whipped his sleeve back to reveal the mark.
In a lot of ways Malfoy is just a rotten version of Harry. For all his bravado, Draco couldn't go through with eliminating Dumbledore and he seemed to know it. Not that it helped him or Snape in the end. While Harry developed a wide circle of friends during his Hogwarts years, Draco only ever had two. His minions, Crabbe and Goyle. However, even Draco never really saw this as real friends as much as two lunkheads he could boss around.
He only cared about them in the most shallow way possible. It's probably why he ended up ditching them after Half-Blood Prince. The book even mentions the two look lost without Draco. That might also explain why they don't easily fall back under his sway during the Battle of Hogwarts.
In Deathly Hallows, Draco mentions to Ginny Weasley that he was jealous of Harry's genuine friendships more than anything else. Just another way envy drove his actions. Both Harry and Draco took some training in Occlumency, hiding their thoughts from other prying wizards. Harry did this to hide from Voldemort, Draco from Dumbledore. And if Draco needed something else to hang over Harry, he was better at it.
It was how he kept his plans secret during The Half-Blood Prince. On Pottermore , J. Rowling attributes Draco's skill to his upbringing. From a young age, he becomes quite good at compartmentalizing his thoughts and keeping his cards close to the chest. Harry was too earnest for that. Draco's teacher probably helped too. She wouldn't have held back with him.
Rowling added to the rivalry between Draco and Harry in Chamber of Secrets by making them both Seekers for their houses' Quidditch teams. At first, this just seemed like another way Draco was jealous of Harry. It's stated he only got the position because his father bribed the team with new brooms and equipment. However, Draco quickly proved himself to be as good a Quidditch player as Harry.
Theirs was a match between talent and experience. Draco trained on a broom from a young age and was an experienced rider, whereas Harry was more naturally gifted.
They kind of evened each other out. Draco's skill was so integral to the Slytherin team that when he quit in his sixth year, their quality plummeted. Draco doesn't just throw wrenches into Harry's life without knowing it. He also did it to Voldemort too. One of the Dark Lord's key goals throughout Deathly Hallows is getting the Elder Wand, the most powerful wand in existence. The only problem is for it to work properly, the wielder must defeat the wand's previous owner.
That's all fine and dandy, but Voldemort didn't realize who the wand's true master was. He thought it was Dumbledore, then Snape. However, it was actually Draco. Mastery of the wand passed to him when he disarmed Dumbledore before Snape killed him and Draco didn't even know it, but did Dumbledore? The headmaster certainly didn't stop Draco from disarming him.
Draco Malfoy is a classic school bully. He taunts and belittles people, but the minute they stand up for themselves he folds like a chair. It's probably also why he keeps getting his tail kicked by everybody. In the books, Draco instigated at least two fights, one in Goblet of Fire and one in Order of the Phoenix, that both end with him either getting hexed or assaulted.
Boy's gotta learn when to keep his mouth. This tendency led to one of the more memorable moments in the films too. In Prisoner of Azkaban, after backing down from threatening him with her wand, Hermione socks Draco in the face for making fun of Hagrid. Can't say he didn't have it coming.
Draco and Harry had nothing but mutual animosity for one another, but they were more alike than either wanted to admit. Both were the sons of famous wizarding houses and the reputations of the parents preceded them wherever they went. Negatively, in Draco's case. Both of their families were quite wealthy too, though Draco took every chance to flaunt that wealth and influence.
Finally, both shared a love of Quidditch and were the Seekers of their respective house teams. Also: draco was totally forced into his lifestyle by his dad and his arc is inspiring, he was prolly abused or somthing and he lowered his wand and was gonna let dat old manipulative coot dumby go. He also was forced into b ing and death eater by voldy and when he was vulnerable that brat harry stabbed him :.
Thanks you finally someone who agrees!!! Also harry could have used any other spell. The blame is all his.
Although, i ddo totally respect ur opinion and i get were ur coming from ;. Blake Malfoy wrote: "Yes!!!!!!! Jan 02, AM. I disagree; Draco wasn't abused at all. He mentioned in book 1 he would bully his father into buying him a broom. Harry was strongly reminded of Dudley too Draco is honestly just a magical, thinner version of Dudley. Lucius sent him newspapers about the Weasleys to entertain him, he bought the whole Slytherin Quidditch team those brooms to help Draco get into the team, Narcissa sent him sweets, Lucius tried to get Buckbeak killed for injuring his son, Narcissa went behind Voldemort's back to protect Draco, Lucius begged Voldemort to let him go to Draco, Narcissa snapped at Bellatrix for talking to Draco in a rude manner, Lucius and Narcissa stopped fighting in the Battle Of Hogwarts and ran across the battlefield to help Draco.
He wasn't forced to be a Death Eater either. Malfoy wanted to be a Death Eater, he agreed with their stuff anyway.
I mean the guy laughed at Cedric's death and wished death on Muggleborns. He was actually excited about the prospect of killing Dumbledore until he realized that Voldemort was going to kill his parents once all his plans failed. Dumbledore even offered help but he refused. And so as you can see above, Draco wasn't abused.
The fandom made this up to give Draco an excuse bc they liked the actor Tom Felton isn't Draco btw, don't confuse them: one is the actor who was chosen to portray Draco and seems like a good person, while the other is a "rat-faced," racist sadistic bully and if someone is good-looking, they should totally be excused for their cruel deeds. The Malfoys might be horrible people but they're only redeeming trait is that they love each other, jkr said so herself.
Sometimes parents can abuse their kids by expecting so much of them that the child could never feel like enough, nd can lead to depression. I really do not think that it is draco's fault. The fault lies completely with the parents here.
Yet another sign that his parents and friends all pushed him to b a death eater. Im sure that if u or anyone ele grew up in that environment, you would react the same as draco. I like Draco for himself. Although tom felton IS cute tho. He HOT!! Samara --Lil' Perce is cute squad-- wrote: "bailey af wrote: "i respectfully disagree.
I quickly googled what you meant and the word you mean is enabling. They just had poor parenting skills by raising him with those views and spoiling him.
We don't get any evidence that Lucius and Narcissa expected the absolute best of Draco and were perfectionists. We don't even know them that well. The closest thing we get is when Lucius berated him for getting less than a Muggle-born and that just lines up with their worldviews; that isn't that harsh anyway.
I agree that Draco was probably not inherently evil and was raised to accept Lucius and Narcissa's worldviews but the fault is split between Draco and his parents. Sirius and Regulus were in similar situations as Draco but Sirius and Regulus didn't end up like him. It was clear in canon that Draco wanted to be like his father. He was never forced into becoming a Death Eater. Lucius was in Azkaban, and Narcissa was obviously distressed by the whole thing.
His friends didn't push him either. No, he actually bragged about it to his cronies. I mean, think about it…When the Dark Lord takes over, is he going to care how many O. We actually got characters who grew up in the same environment: Sirius and Regulus and they didn't react anything like Draco. The point is that Draco wasn't abused but doted on by his bigoted parents like Sirius and Regulus and made all the wrong choices unlike Sirius and Regulus and never got redeemed.
Jan 04, PM. Add a reference: Book Author. While Draco deserves a lot of credit for having a change of heart once things got a little too real for him, the unfortunate reality is that his change of perspective didn't result in much of a change of behavior.
Yes, he wasn't bad enough to actually kill anyone or get people killed, but he was still an unusually cruel and unkind person regardless. Probably the biggest reason why Draco is a misunderstood character is because he lives in an extremely privileged and isolated bubble, so frankly he's just ignorant about a lot of real world issues.
And because he was raised by haughty and arrogant parents, he reacts to his ignorance through cruelty instead of trying to actually understand how he affects others. Given his turnaround later in life, it seems that his bad behavior was a result of nurture, not nature.
It's clear from the moment that Draco arrives at Hogwarts that the school experience is pushing him very far outside of his comfort zone. And while he did change his behavior eventually and after experiencing a lot of horrific things, the truth is that he was given many opportunities to learn and change, and throughout the entire course of the story he simply chose not to. By Hilary Elizabeth Published Aug 02,
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