99 Fun Facts About Draco Malfoy

Who is Draco's father?

Lucius Malfoy's arrest after the Department of Mysteries battle costs the whole Malfoy family Voldemort's favour.

Which house-elf served the Malfoy family until Harry tricked his master into setting him free?

Dobby was freed when Harry tricked his master into handing him a sock, and he later died from a thrown knife while rescuing prisoners from Malfoy Manor.

Who played Draco in all eight Harry Potter films?

Tom Felton stayed Draco for all eight films, while Rowling admitted that girls swearing undying devotion to such an imperfect character worried her.

Who was cast as Draco in HBO's Harry Potter television series?

Lox Pratt was cast in 2025 for the HBO series, which recasts the whole school-age cast from scratch ahead of its Christmas Day 2026 premiere.

Draco's ancestor Armand Malfoy came to Britain with which invader?

William the Conqueror's Norman army brought Armand Malfoy to Britain, and the king rewarded him with seized land in Wiltshire, where the Malfoys have lived ever since.

The surname Malfoy is believed to come from a French phrase meaning what?

Scholar Philip Nel traces Malfoy to the French mal foi, meaning bad faith, and Rowling's drafts tried Smart, Spinks and Spungen before she settled on it.

In the books, where do Harry and Draco first meet?

At Madam Malkin's robe shop Draco asks whether Harry's parents were 'our kind', a first meeting the film leaves out entirely.

Why, according to Rowling, does Draco initially try to befriend Harry?

Rowling said arriving with a famous friend would be cool, but Harry turned Draco down after he had been rude about Hagrid and Ron.

How does Draco try to get Harry expelled in Philosopher's Stone?

Setting up a fake midnight duel: Draco tipped off Filch, and fleeing him led Harry and his friends straight to Fluffy, the three-headed dog.

Which broomsticks did Draco's father donate to get him onto the Slytherin team?

The Nimbus 2001s bought Draco his team place, and Hermione's jibe that Gryffindor's players got in on talent provoked his first 'Mudblood' insult.

Which position does Draco play for Slytherin?

As Slytherin's Seeker from his second year, Draco hunts the Snitch against Harry in Gryffindor-Slytherin matches.

Disguised as whom do Harry and Ron infiltrate the Slytherin common room?

Drinking Polyjuice Potion to pass as Crabbe and Goyle, the pair learn that Draco is not the Heir of Slytherin after all.

Which creature injures Draco in Hagrid's first Care of Magical Creatures lesson?

Draco insulted a hippogriff, Buckbeak, which slashed his arm, then played up the wound until the creature was sentenced to death.

Who hits Draco across the face in Prisoner of Azkaban?

Hermione Granger hits Draco for mocking Hagrid's tears over Buckbeak's death sentence.

What do Draco's Support Cedric Diggory badges say when pressed?

Pressed, the badges flashed 'Potter Stinks', and Draco also fed Rita Skeeter malicious, often false stories about Harry and Hagrid.

Into which animal does the fake Mad-Eye Moody transfigure Draco?

Barty Crouch Jr, disguised as Moody, turns Draco into a ferret and bounces him off the floor for trying to curse Harry from behind.

With whom is Draco named Slytherin prefect in Order of the Phoenix?

Pansy Parkinson, a Slytherin in Harry's year, becomes the house's other fifth-year prefect alongside Draco.

Which Umbridge-backed group does Draco join in his fifth year?

As a member of the Inquisitorial Squad, Draco earns Slytherin fifty points for catching Harry as Dumbledore's Army flees the Room of Requirement.

Whose Bat-Bogey Hex hits Draco when Dumbledore's Army escapes from Umbridge's office?

Ginny Weasley's Bat-Bogey Hex is so impressive that Slughorn invites her into his Slug Club after seeing her use it on Zacharias Smith.

What happens to Draco and his cronies on the train home after fifth year?

They are turned into giant slugs when several members of Dumbledore's Army hex Draco and his cronies at once, answering his try at revenge.

Who makes the Unbreakable Vow to protect Draco and finish his task if he fails?

Severus Snape makes the vow at Spinner's End when Narcissa begs him, with her sister Bellatrix looking on in disbelief.

Which Knockturn Alley shop does Draco visit at the start of Half-Blood Prince?

At Borgin and Burkes Draco threatens the owner into mending one object and keeping another safe, while Harry spies under the Invisibility Cloak.

What does Draco do to Harry on the Hogwarts Express in Half-Blood Prince?

Draco immobilises him and breaks his nose, leaving Harry stranded on the train; Tonks rescues him in the book and Luna Lovegood in the film.

Which spell does Harry use on Draco in Moaning Myrtle's bathroom?

Sectumsempra, from the Half-Blood Prince's book, stops Draco mid-Cruciatus and leaves him bleeding until Snape heals him.

Which two attacks does Harry suspect Draco of in Half-Blood Prince?

A cursed necklace and poisoned mead were both Draco's clumsy attempts on Dumbledore: Katie Bell touched the necklace and Ron drank the mead.

Where does Draco confront Dumbledore at the end of Half-Blood Prince?

On the Astronomy Tower Draco cannot bring himself to kill Dumbledore, so Snape casts the Killing Curse instead.

What did Draco repair in the Room of Requirement to let Death Eaters into the castle?

A Vanishing Cabinet swallowed Montague when Fred and George shoved him in, which showed Draco it was linked to a twin in Knockturn Alley.

Why did Voldemort really give Draco the task of killing Dumbledore?

Voldemort set the task to punish Lucius with his son's death, after Lucius failed to seize the prophecy at the Ministry.

Which Hogwarts professor does Draco watch Voldemort murder at Malfoy Manor?

Charity Burbage had defended Muggle-borns in the Daily Prophet, so Voldemort killed her at Malfoy Manor and fed her body to Nagini.

In the books, who dies in the Fiendfyre in the Room of Requirement?

Vincent Crabbe dies in the Fiendfyre he cast himself, but in the Deathly Hallows – Part 2 film Goyle casts it and dies instead.

Who punches Draco under the Invisibility Cloak during the Battle of Hogwarts?

Ron Weasley throws the punch while Draco is pleading with a Death Eater to spare him.

Why did Draco become master of the Elder Wand without ever holding it?

He disarmed Dumbledore on the tower and won the Elder Wand's allegiance, so when Harry took Draco's wand at Malfoy Manor, Harry became its master.

What lie helps keep the Malfoys out of Azkaban after the Battle of Hogwarts?

Narcissa telling Voldemort Harry was dead let her reach her son in the castle, and it helped the Malfoys narrowly avoid Azkaban.

Whom does Draco marry?

Astoria Greengrass had turned from pure-blood ideals and refused to raise their son to think Muggles were scum; an inherited blood curse later killed her.

What is the name of Draco's son?

Scorpius Hyperion Malfoy becomes best friends with Harry's son Albus Severus in Cursed Child.

In the epilogue, how does Draco greet Harry, Ron, Hermione and Ginny at King's Cross?

With a curt nod Draco acknowledges Harry, Ron, Hermione and Ginny at King's Cross nineteen years later, the old rivalry cooled to a gesture.

What did Draco once call the greatest day of his life?

The birth of his son was the greatest day of Draco's life, and in Cursed Child that boy is dogged by rumours that Voldemort is his father.

In Rowling's account of his adult life, what does Draco collect but never use?

Draco keeps the Dark artefacts he inherited on display without using them, and he studies alchemical manuscripts but never tries to make a Philosopher's Stone.

Which actor was cast as Draco's father in HBO's Harry Potter television series?

Johnny Flynn, frontman of the folk band Johnny Flynn & the Sussex Wit, was announced as Draco's father on 9 June 2025.

Where did the films' Draco actor take the role back on stage?

On Broadway, where Cursed Child has run since 2018, his November 2025 debut as Draco earned a standing ovation mid-show.

Which two roles did the films' Draco actor audition for before landing the part?

He hadn't read the books when he read for Harry and Ron, and he was cast as Draco instead.

Which MTV Movie Award did the films' Draco actor win in both 2010 and 2011?

Best Villain went to him in 2010 for Half-Blood Prince, where Draco can't bring himself to kill Dumbledore, and again for Deathly Hallows – Part 1.

What colour are Draco's eyes in the books?

Rowling pictures Draco as a tall, slender boy with a pale, pointed face, sleek blond hair and ice grey eyes.

What wood is Draco's wand made from?

Ollivander identifies the hawthorn wand, ten inches precisely and reasonably springy, after Harry wins it from Draco at Malfoy Manor.

What is the core of Draco's wand?

The unicorn hair wand Harry wins from Draco at Malfoy Manor is the one he uses to disarm Voldemort in the final duel.

From whom did Draco learn Occlumency?

His aunt Bellatrix taught him, and Rowling tied his success, where Harry failed, to Draco's knack for compartmentalising his inner conflict.

What did Rowling say Draco's Patronus would be?

He could not produce one by the end of the sixth book, Rowling said, since the charm is not magic routinely taught at Hogwarts.

Which spell does Draco use to conjure a snake in the second-year duelling club?

Draco conjures the snake with Serpensortia on Snape's suggestion, and he also hits Harry with the dancing-legs spell Tarantallegra.

Who plays Draco in the fan parody A Very Potter Musical?

Lauren Lopez played Draco in the 2009 University of Michigan show, which went viral after StarKid posted the whole musical on YouTube.

Which gesture from Draco Malfoy does Harry Potter refuse on their first Hogwarts Express journey?

A handshake is what Draco Malfoy holds out, and Harry leaves it hanging because Draco has just mocked the boy sharing his compartment. Their seven-year rivalry starts in that moment.

Who was cast as Draco Malfoy's wife in the epilogue of the final Harry Potter film?

His actor's girlfriend, stunt assistant Jade Olivia Gordon, played Draco Malfoy's wife on the King's Cross platform. The pair stayed together for almost eight years.

Which creatures do Draco Malfoy and three fellow Slytherins dress up as to rattle Harry Potter at a Quidditch match?

Dementors are what the hooded pranksters imitate, because the real ones make Harry faint. He fires a Patronus at them anyway, and Draco Malfoy's gang ends up knocked flat.

Which slur does Draco Malfoy first use against a classmate in Chamber of Secrets?

Mudblood is the word, and Draco Malfoy spits it out when a classmate says the Gryffindor players earned their places through talent, not bribery. It is the most insulting term for a Muggle-born's ancestry, and hearing it shocks Hagrid.

Which gift from Neville Longbottom's grandmother does Draco Malfoy steal in a flying lesson?

A Remembrall, a device meant to help Neville remember things, is what Draco Malfoy flies off with. Harry Potter's dive to catch it gets him recruited to the Gryffindor Quidditch team.

Which enchanted object does Harry Potter use to track Draco Malfoy in Half-Blood Prince?

The Marauder's Map shows everyone in the castle, yet Draco Malfoy keeps dropping off it. He is inside the Room of Requirement, the one place the parchment cannot follow him.

Which writer does Draco Malfoy feed spiteful stories about Harry Potter and Hagrid in Goblet of Fire?

Rita Skeeter quotes Draco Malfoy in the Daily Prophet, giving his grudges a national audience. She gathers the rest of her gossip by spying on Hogwarts as an unregistered Animagus.

Draco Malfoy's first name, the Latin word for dragon, is also which kind of object in the night sky?

A constellation called Draco winds across the far northern sky. In one Greek telling it is Ladon, the dragon Heracles killed to take the golden apples it guarded.

What name does Hagrid give the baby dragon that Draco Malfoy spies hatching through the hut window?

Norbert is the name Hagrid picks, and Draco Malfoy's glimpse of the illegal pet gives him a secret to hold over Harry Potter. The dragon has to be smuggled away to a keeper in Romania.

Which boarhound goes with Draco Malfoy and Harry Potter into the Forbidden Forest on their detention?

Fang is sent along as protection, but he bolts with Draco Malfoy the moment a hooded figure appears. Harry Potter is left to face it alone.

Which Hogwarts teacher runs the duelling club where Draco Malfoy faces Harry Potter?

Gilderoy Lockhart sets up the club and is thrown across the room in his own first demonstration. His plan to pair two other boys is overruled so that Draco Malfoy can face Harry instead.

Which Hogwarts post does Draco Malfoy's father lose at the end of Chamber of Secrets?

School governor is the seat he is sacked from, after others on the board say he threatened to curse their families unless they voted to suspend the headmaster.

Which enchanted book does Draco Malfoy's father slip into a first-year's cauldron in Diagon Alley?

Tom Riddle's diary is planted among a girl's schoolbooks, and it goes on to possess her and open the Chamber of Secrets. Its loss is the first of the failures that cost the family its standing.

As whose guests do Draco Malfoy and his parents sit in the Top Box at the Quidditch World Cup?

Cornelius Fudge, the Minister for Magic, invites the family on the strength of a recent donation to St Mungo's Hospital. Gifts like that are how Draco Malfoy's father buys influence at the Ministry.

Which Auror is Draco Malfoy's first cousin through his mother's disowned sister Andromeda?

Nymphadora Tonks is his cousin, yet the two never speak in the entire series. Her mother was cut off by the family for marrying a Muggle-born wizard.

What does Draco Malfoy's jinx do to Neville Longbottom, who then tumbles through the portrait hole?

Sticks his legs together is the answer, and it backfires on Draco Malfoy. The Chocolate Frog that Harry Potter hands Neville to cheer him up holds a card that cracks the year's big mystery.

Which foreign wizarding school does Draco Malfoy boast that he almost attended instead of Hogwarts?

Durmstrang is the school Draco Malfoy brags about on the train in Goblet of Fire. His father favoured it for teaching the Dark Arts, but his mother did not want him schooled so far away.

Draco Malfoy's mother was born into which pure-blood family, owners of 12 Grimmauld Place?

The Black family produced Draco Malfoy's mother, the youngest of three sisters and a cousin of Sirius. She is the only member of the family its old house-elf still trusts.

Outside which Hogsmeade landmark does an invisible Harry Potter ambush Draco Malfoy?

The Shrieking Shack is the spot, and the prank goes wrong when the cloak slips and Draco Malfoy sees Harry's head floating in mid-air. He runs off in a panic and reports it.

How does Dolores Umbridge punish Harry Potter for attacking Draco Malfoy after a Quidditch match?

A lifetime playing ban is her ruling, overriding the week of detention Professor McGonagall had just handed out. She also bans a twin who never touched Draco Malfoy, and confiscates all three brooms.

After a battle in which part of the Ministry of Magic is Draco Malfoy's father captured and jailed?

The Department of Mysteries is where Death Eaters led by Draco Malfoy's father fail to seize a prophecy and are caught. The disgrace turns the family from Voldemort's favourites into his hostages.

Which Gryffindor Chaser is nearly killed in Hogsmeade by a package Draco Malfoy meant for Dumbledore?

Katie Bell is carrying the package when it rips open, and she rises into the air before falling to the ground screaming. Draco Malfoy's parcel was only ever meant to be delivered.

Which Hogsmeade pub landlady does Draco Malfoy control with the Imperius Curse in Half-Blood Prince?

Madam Rosmerta spends the school year as Draco Malfoy's unwitting agent, passing his deadly gifts into the castle. She is also the one who points Dumbledore towards the trap waiting at Hogwarts.

Who hauls Draco Malfoy into Horace Slughorn's Christmas party, accusing him of gatecrashing?

Argus Filch thinks he has caught a gatecrasher, but Draco Malfoy has no wish to be at the party at all. He was found skulking in the corridors on business of his own.

Whose arrival at Hogwarts with the Death Eaters horrifies Draco Malfoy, who did not know he was coming?

Fenrir Greyback is a werewolf who sees it as his duty to bite as many people as possible. Draco Malfoy opened the way into the school, but he is appalled to find him among the raiders.

In which English county does Draco Malfoy's family mansion stand?

Wiltshire is where Malfoy Manor stands, and in Deathly Hallows Voldemort takes the mansion over as his headquarters. Draco Malfoy's family become reluctant hosts in their own home.

Which showy white birds roam the grounds of Malfoy Manor, the family home of Draco Malfoy?

Peacocks, of a rare albino kind, strut about the estate, and one startles two Death Eaters arriving for a meeting. Rarer and costlier than ordinary ones, they show off the wealth of Draco Malfoy's family.

Which Horcrux is Harry Potter hunting when Draco Malfoy ambushes him in the Room of Requirement?

Ravenclaw's diadem is buried among centuries of hidden junk, and Draco Malfoy stops a crony from toppling the piles in case it is lost for good. He wants it, and Harry, delivered intact.

Which spell does Harry Potter cast with Draco Malfoy's captured wand in his final duel with Voldemort?

Expelliarmus, Harry's signature spell, meets a Killing Curse head-on. The curse rebounds on Voldemort, because the wand he is holding owes its loyalty to Harry.

In the Half-Blood Prince film, who rescues Harry Potter after Draco Malfoy leaves him on the train?

Luna Lovegood takes the rescuer's role on screen. In the book the job falls to an Auror, who happens to be the cousin Draco Malfoy never speaks to.

Which Slytherin stands in for one of Draco Malfoy's usual sidekicks in the final Harry Potter film?

Blaise Zabini joins the Room of Requirement ambush on screen, a change from the book. In the novels he is known for a famously beautiful mother whose seven husbands all died mysteriously and left her rich.

Which actress plays Draco Malfoy's mother in the last three Harry Potter films?

Helen McCrory had first been cast as the character's sister, but her pregnancy forced her to pull out. She joined the next film as Draco Malfoy's mother instead.

Which co-star wrote the foreword to Beyond the Wand, the memoir by the actor who played Draco Malfoy?

Emma Watson wrote it, and in it she calls herself and her old screen enemy soulmates. The memoir covers his years growing up inside the Harry Potter films.

In which 1997 family film about tiny people did the future Draco Malfoy actor make his screen debut?

The Borrowers gave him his first film role, as Peagreen Clock. Until then the boy who became Draco Malfoy had only appeared in commercials.

Which actor first played the adult Draco Malfoy in Harry Potter and the Cursed Child in London?

Alex Price created the stage role at London's Palace Theatre in 2016. His Draco Malfoy wears his hair long, like his father's.

Which child of Harry Potter becomes the best friend of Draco Malfoy's son in the Cursed Child play?

Albus, the younger son, meets the boy on the Hogwarts Express and is sorted into Slytherin beside him. Draco Malfoy later goes to Harry's house to defend the friendship when Harry tries to end it.

Which forbidden device does Draco Malfoy admit to owning in Harry Potter and the Cursed Child?

A Time-Turner, the perfected model of a prototype Harry had obtained, turns out to be in Draco Malfoy's keeping. Harry and his allies use it to follow their missing sons into the past.

Which surname did J.K. Rowling give Draco Malfoy in her earliest drafts of Philosopher's Stone?

Spungen was the first choice, and it survives on a handwritten class list where she later crossed it out. The surname everyone knows was added only after that list was finished.

Which Dark object lets Draco Malfoy see in darkness while he guides Death Eaters through Hogwarts?

The Hand of Glory is a dried, severed human hand holding a candle whose light only the bearer can see. Draco Malfoy throws down a blackout powder and leads the raiders through it.

Which relative chaperoned the young Draco Malfoy actor on set and cameoed as a Hogwarts professor?

His grandfather, the geophysicist Nigel Anstey, came along to look after him and ended up in costume among the teachers.

On whom did J.K. Rowling loosely base Draco Malfoy, the foil to her hero Harry Potter?

Her school bullies gave the author her model for Draco Malfoy. She later worried aloud that readers were getting far too fond of him.

What does Draco Malfoy try to cast on Harry Potter when he is caught crying in a Hogwarts bathroom?

The Cruciatus Curse, the torture spell, is half spoken when Harry gets his own spell in first. The clash leaves Draco Malfoy bleeding on the floor and Harry horrified at what he has done.

Which English queen did an ancestor of Draco Malfoy court without success, according to J.K. Rowling?

Elizabeth I turned the Malfoy suitor down, and some wizarding historians claim her later opposition to marriage came from a jinx he cast in revenge. Later generations of the family hotly deny the story.

Draco Malfoy brags that his father is close to which head of the Wizarding Examinations Authority?

Griselda Marchbanks is the examiner he name-drops before the O.W.L.s, hinting that his marks are assured. Neville Longbottom quietly notes that she is a friend of his grandmother's and has never mentioned the family.

Which missing Slytherin, found jammed in a toilet, does Draco Malfoy fetch help for in Order of the Phoenix?

Montague had vanished at the hands of two Gryffindor pranksters. What he later told Draco Malfoy about his ordeal became the seed of the plan Draco carried out the following year.

Which Neil Cicierega web series gives Draco Malfoy one episode as a crude paper figure made by Harry?

Potter Puppet Pals gives Draco Malfoy one episode, in which Harry makes the little paper figure purely to torment it. He ends the episode by burning it on a stove.

What kills Draco Malfoy's wife in the stage sequel Harry Potter and the Cursed Child?

An inherited blood curse ran in her family, and childbirth weakened her further. Draco Malfoy had even considered letting his line end with him so that she might live longer.

In which 1999 drama did the future Draco Malfoy actor play the son of Jodie Foster's character?

Anna and the King cast him as Louis, the young son of the governess Anna Leonowens, two years before he first sneered on screen as Draco Malfoy.

Which TV series parodies Draco Malfoy as a sneering student named Jerko Phoenix?

Wizards of Waverly Place sends its heroes to a school called Wiz-tech, where everyone wears round glasses and Jerko Phoenix fills the Draco Malfoy role.

Which curse used by Antonin Dolohov does a second-year Draco Malfoy cast on Harry Potter?

Tarantallegra is the curse, cast in the same duelling-club bout in which Draco Malfoy conjures a serpent. Both show he was a capable wizard as early as his second year.