Malfoy, Draco.

[draco]

Name: Draco Abraxas Malfoy.
Bloodline: Pure Blood
Cannon?: Cannon
Age & Year: Seventeen, seventh year.
Gender: Wizard
Desired Position: Student
Subject: N/A.
Best Subject: Potions, Transfiguration.
Worst Subject: Care of Magical Creatures, Divination.
Classes:

Potions.
Transfiguration.
Defence Against the Dark Arts.
History of Magic.
Charms.

Appearance:

At 6’1” in height, Draco is definitely a presence that can be felt, and not just because he’s tall. There is delicate sense to the way he’s built, but that is generally masked by his hard-hitting personality. Often described as lean (and some would say lanky, but that’s not really the right word), the Slytherin has an air of grace and authority about him that has yet to be challenged or matched.

One thing is for certain: Draco stands apart from the crowd. The cool, harsh blue of his eyes has been said to gain him many admirers (one thing that has never been confirmed), and there is a perpetual sneer on his face when he happens to be in the presence of the ‘Golden Trio’. The teenager’s strong disliking for them is easy to read in his body language; he instinctively asserts dominance over them whenever he can, and will often go to extreme lengths to make their lives miserable.

With pale blond hair that, contrary to popular belief, isn’t actually white, it’s hard not to miss the Slytherin among the throng of Hogwarts students. He walks with cockiness and arrogance that seems to run in the family, and he is constantly surrounded by his fellow House members or at least those he deems worthy enough to be seen with him. Draco is not an ugly child; if anything, you could call him handsome. His mother certainly does.

The boy’s high cheekbones give way to the obnoxious behaviour that he so loves to act out. Everything about him seems to be lean, but - at the same time - proportioned perfectly, as if he was carved from stone. Cold and indifferent to the rest of the world apart from what goes on in Hogwarts—and, of course, things to do with his family and Potter—Draco’s appearance tends to summarise his house very well.

He is extremely hygienic, it should be noted. There is never any dirt on him, and the only time he’s ever actually gotten dirty (to most of the school’s knowledge) was when he insulted Buckbeak back in his third year. Of course, then there’s the incident with him helping Death Eaters to break into the school, but that’s a completely different matter altogether.

When Draco walks, he doesn’t actually walk. He strolls, much like a rooster, with his head high, forever looking down upon his peers. There is something calculating in the way he watches people scamper past him as if they fear him—which, of course, they do and they should, because he is an intimidating person—and one can almost suspect that, whenever he smirks at someone, he is mocking them.

If they did make that assumption, they’d be correct. Draco is prone to belittling others—it’s a source of amusement for him, and for his house—and even the way he holds himself and looks after himself seems to imply that. What can I say? For a Slytherin, the teenager seems to uphold each and every aspect of his house with pride and smugness that is typical for a Malfoy.

Personality:

In three words, Draco Malfoy is attention-seeking, manipulative and, undoubtedly, he is cruel.

He has little compassion for those who are not Slytherins, and there is an exceptional amount of anger and hatred within him that is aimed towards the Golden Trio and—more specifically—Harry Potter. Calculating and bitter about the whole affair regarding Harry (especially the fact that the Gryffindor tends to get more attention than he does), Draco is someone that you don’t want to irritate at all. His temper is legendary, and the sheer fact that he gets what he wants when he wants it should be enough to tell people to steer clear of him.

If there’s one thing that Draco doesn’t like, it’s being beaten. His sense of house and, more importantly, family pride is astounding, and whenever there’s a challenge, he usually rises to it. However, if he deems something as beneath him, he will not apply himself to it, often resulting to summoning his two lackeys, Crabbe and Goyle, to do it for him. Giving off the impression that he’s treated like a prince, the male makes it his everyday task to make others feel as if they are nothing. It should also be noted that he does this quite well.

Possessing a cynical sense of humour and a sharp tongue, you really shouldn’t get into a verbal battle—or a duel, actually—with Draco. Sarcasm is his best friend, or so it would seem, and he wields it like a knight handles a sword: with deadly accuracy. Due to his family’s connections all over England, the Slytherin usually knows something about everybody. If he doesn’t, well, he will soon. He takes pleasure in seeing others miserable, and gets a kick out of reducing younger students to tears.

Cruel? Absolutely. Draco is the epitome of what it means to be a Slytherin. Highly intelligent, people in his house boast that he has the brains to rival Hermione… if only he could actually be bothered to use them. It’s not that he’s stupid or lacking in the cleverness department of things, it’s simply that he’s lazy and so accustomed to people doing things for him that—well—he just doesn’t try all that hard. Still, it doesn’t stop him getting exceptionally good grades, so he’s not really bothered about that.

Draco has being an arsehole right down to a ‘T’. He can pretend to be nice—if he feels like it, which he usually doesn’t—but then he gets bored of being all ‘Harry Potter-y’ and goes back to his normal routine. Smug and confident, he’s convinced that he can do everything, and if he can’t, he’ll just get his father to pay the right amount of money and then he will be able to do everything. If it worked with Quidditch, it’ll work again; some people never learn.

It’s rumoured that Draco doesn’t actually have any feelings. He does, it’s just that he prefers to act like he doesn’t. True, nothing anyone says upsets him anyway—they have nothing on him, I tell you!—so it’s not as if he has to run around crying because someone insulted him. He’s had a string of girlfriends during his time at Hogwarts, but he hasn’t really stuck to any of them. Commitment is something he has an issue with; it’s just not his style.

Bitter to the point of indifference, if there’s one thing that’s certain, it’s that Draco is absolutely hell-bent on destroying the image of Harry Potter. For the first time in his life, the attention hasn’t been on the Slytherin and he loathes it. Even at the slightest mention of the Gryffindor’s name, the male is prone to whirling around and hissing some cruel remark about the person who said ‘Harry Potter,’ then storming off and going into a strop.

He blames it on hormones, or on a lack of sleep, claiming that the state of the Slytherin Common Room stops him from getting a good night’s rest. Utterly Slytherin in every way, Draco Malfoy is a role model to those who have darker tastes and less-than-pleasant thoughts. But, don’t worry, Draco, we love you anyway.

History:

On the 5th June, 1980, a high-pitched scream echoed throughout St. Mungo’s Hospital, causing several nurses to look towards the maternity ward and wonder what was going on. The scream itself came from a newborn baby, Draco Abraxas Malfoy, who was already demanding everyone’s eyes to be on him and him alone, a trait that he has possessed throughout his life.

Born to Lucius and Narcissa Malfoy (nee: Black), Draco was their first and only child, ultimately destined to carry on the Malfoy name. He was spoilt from the very beginning, given anything and everything he wanted and constantly having his ego stroked and his confidence boosted. Bearing a striking resemblance to his father, but with softer features inherited from his mother, Draco was a baby that no one could resist, and was constantly doted on.

His childhood was no different. Smothered with praise, it was at the age of eight that his father first revealed to him the true power of their family name. He had summoned Draco into his private chambers, along with Dobby, their house elf, and had then inflicted the Cruciatus curse upon the family’s servant. Forced to watch—although it was not without awe that he observed the event of torture—Lucius then explained the importance of upholding their family name.

Years passed. At eleven, the acceptance letter to Hogwarts arrived. It was not an exciting affair for Draco; he knew what he was and where he would be taught to further his magic (although his father had promised to teach him things that he would not learn at school), so the whole concept was rather mediocre by the time his letter was actually delivered. Whisked off to Diagon Alley, he made his first encounter with Harry Potter.

The Boy Who Lived didn’t seem like anything out of the ordinary to Draco’s untrained eye. He’d said a few words to the Gryffindor and had then been given his wand, much to his glee. Taken off to continue his shopping for all the items that had been written down on the letter, the boy didn’t have a chance to dwindle upon the encounter, and he didn’t think to, either, because he was far too busy keeping up with his mother’s brisk pace to do anything else.

Draco’s next meeting with Harry was a little more hostile. He’d openly belittled the Weasley family in front of the aforementioned Weasley and Harry, causing sniggers all around apart from the where he aimed to hear the most laughs: Harry himself. The Gryffindor’s refusal to be his friend and pick his allies wisely caused much tension between them, and Draco spawned an instant dislike for him after that. Turning down a Malfoy—who did he think he was?

Sorted into Slytherin like the rest of his family (apart from a few, like Sirius Black, his cousin, who was never mentioned in the household but who Draco knew existed), the boy’s life at Hogwarts started off well. His first year passed without much drama, apart from the fact that he was forced to sit and watch Harry steal the attention that was rightly his. It irritated him greatly and further fed the loathing that was already starting to develop for the Gryffindor.

In his second year, he became the Slytherin Seeker, having complained that Harry was getting benefits because he was the Boy Who Lived. Lucius soon saw to that and, as Hermione rightly assumed, bought his son’s way into the Quidditch team by providing them all with the latest brooms on the market. When rumours of an heir of Slytherin broke out, Draco tried to stop them circulating around Harry by implying that it was in fact him and not Harry who was wreaking havoc upon Hogwarts.

It took the limelight away from Harry for a while, leaving Draco feeling smug. However, not soon after, the attention returned to the Gryffindor and continued to infuriate the blond Slytherin. He was glad that his second year finished when it did; he couldn’t have stood another minute of seeing Harry immortalized by Dumbledore once again.

The Slytherin’s third year was, once again, not extremely exciting. The best part for him was when he got Hagrid and his filthy hippogriff in trouble and promptly got the hippogriff executed. Although he’d hurt his arm (even if he was exaggerating it most of the time), it allowed him to get away with more than usual with regards to his behaviour, and he noted that he didn’t see too much of Harry around that year, thank Merlin.

Draco’s fourth and fifth year were uneventful. They consisted of hating Harry some more, and getting him into trouble. Being part of Umbridge’s Inquisitorial Squad gave him the chance to get his own back on Harry, and he did - with pleasure. Watching Harry win the Triwizard Tournament in his fourth year was one of the most horrible things Draco had ever seen, and so he was equally glad when he finished his fourth and fifth years, absolutely sick to death of Harry Potter and his sidekicks.

Over the summer between his fifth and sixth year, things changed.

He successfully broke Harry’s nose for eavesdropping on him during the train to Hogwarts, which caused him great joy, but it was noted by his peers that he became more introverted. Since the capture of his father, Draco had been coerced into doing Voldemort’s bidding—something he would have boasted about before, but was now terrified to do. In exchange for the life of his family, he was to kill Dumbledore and help the Death Eaters infiltrate Hogwarts, something that he felt was an impossible task.

Attempting - and failing - to kill Dumbledore twice, Draco then resorted to luring the headmaster up to the Astronomy Tower, with Harry Potter in tow. Unwilling to kill his headmaster, the Slytherin ultimately lowered his wand when he was faced with the task, despite being flanked by older and more experienced Death Eaters. It was only when Snape came and slaughtered Dumbledore himself that Draco realized what he had done.

He fled, chased by Harry through the school, until Snape successfully allowed him to escape. Since then, Draco has been in hiding, and it is only now that he has returned to Hogwarts, having rebuilt his former attitude and having convinced himself that it wasn’t his fault Dumbledore died.

The façade he uses should work. Hopefully.

Ten Characteristics:

Arrogant.
Competitive.
Manipulative.
Cunning.
Deceitful.
Cruel.
Intelligent.
Sarcastic.
Obnoxious.
Bad-mannered.

[Ronald Weasley]

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House: Slyhterin
Notes: Very well done and very detailed.[/ul]