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Draco Lucius Malfoy

Basic Information
  • ID: I0039
  • Birth: 1980-06-05
  • Hogwarts Sorting: 1991-09-01

Families

Parents

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Analysis

Draco is a coward, a bully, and a very conflicted young man. Over the course of the last two books, he is essentially forced to face the fact that a world under the rule of a “Dark Lord” is not the utopia that he has been raised to believe it would be. This is not to say that he wakes up and actually reforms though, nothing about Draco is ever that simple.

To understand where Draco ends up, you have to contrast the last two times, not counting the epilogue, that we see him.

Why is Draco so hesitant in the first case, and so much more assertive in the second? Is it really just that he is upset about the personal “insult” of losing his wand? If so, there is no true turning away from the violence and torture his family has embraced, for surely he must know that the situation has not changed for the target (Harry).

In the first scene, Draco’s family is oppressed, his father is struggling for control with his aunt, and both (his father and aunt) in fear of Riddle’s disfavour. In the second scene, Draco has a clear shot at personally winning that same favour. The path to victory seems clear, and his self confidence is back.

  1. Mrs. J. K. Rowling. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows p. 189. Pottermore Publishing. American Kindle Edition.↩︎

  2. Mrs. J. K. Rowling. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows p. 259. Pottermore Publishing. American Kindle Edition.↩︎