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Draco Malfoy
Harry Potter ❡ Mayfield RPG
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Statistics
Character Series: Harry Potter
Character Age: 17
Timeline: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Chapter
Background: Draco's entry on HP wiki
Permissions
Backtagging: Yes! Dear Merlin, I live for backtagging.
Threadhopping: Ask first please, but generally totally okay.
Fourthwalling: Ask first please, but usually all right.
Hugging: He may try to hex you or go stiff, depending who you are, but you can try. i.e. Ask please.
Kissing: Same applies as the above.
Flirting: Go for it. Are you rich? Are you powerful? You may be up his Diagon Alley. (No really I'll stop the terrible puns now.)
Romantic/Sexual relationships: He's free game but he's very picky. Ask and we'll see?
Fighting: Allowed!
Injuring: I don't mind maiming him a bit considering what kind of game Mayfield is, but please ask and discuss with me?
Killing: Same as above.
Using telepathy/mind reading abilities: Until he regains his ability to use his Occlumency, it is possible, though maybe a bit harder than some others. Ask.
Warnings:
When he has all of his magic, Draco's a rather powerful wizard...but considering all of that has been taken from him in Mayfield, have fun. If something isn't on my permissions list that you have a question about, please PM/IM/Plurk/whatever me!
About
Born into the lap of luxury, spoiled rotten is one of the best ways to describe one Draco Malfoy. The only child of Lucius and Narcissa Malfoy, growing up in a pureblood wizarding family meant that he was raised to believe that he was better than most of the wizarding population and that he could throw his status in everyone's face. More or less, Draco was raised to be prejudiced and bully anybody who was different than he was. He can be fairly arrogant and won’t even bother trying to hide it.
From the time he was a small child, Draco knew how to use his words to dig at people where it hurts most. Once he arrived at Hogwarts, it wasn’t below him to constantly mock and harass Harry Potter and his friends, especially about physical appearances or social status. He’s been known to make fun of Harry’s dead parents and his scar, Dumbledore’s stupid decisions, the appearances of the professors, the Weasley’s financial situation, and Hermione’s status as a muggle-born, or a “Mudblood”. Of course, he wasn't much nicer to his "friends." Draco Malfoy had mastered the art of manipulation at a very young age. He treats his friends more as servants than as companions and he’s also been known to suck up to teachers in order to benefit himself, namely Professor Snape, a good friend of Draco’s father.
But underneath all of that arrogant, snarky, cunning personality there’s another side of Draco that didn’t really appear until he was about sixteen years old. The world becomes a rather cruel place when your father's incarcerated and your name means nothing. Seeing how his father was a Death Eater, Draco was chosen to replace Lucius and in doing so, his whole personality was rearranged Over the course of his sixth year at Hogwarts, he started struggling with morality and his own conscience. What the Death Eaters wanted him to do and what he wanted to do became two very different things, and Draco found himself slowly buckling under the pressure. As the year went on, he became more sickly and paranoid, spending a lot of his free time trying to accomplish his mission and giving up things he loved most (i.e. Quidditch, and some might say he gave up stalking and taunting Harry Potter.) Even knowing the price over his head, Draco knew he couldn't fulfill his mission of murdering Albus Dumbledore. It's that one moment that really shows the possibility that Draco can be a somewhat redeemable person. This carries on into the summer after his sixth year when the Dark Lord moves into Malfoy Manor and Draco's forced to go along with Death Eater activities. The fact that he's very unwilling to use the Cruciatus Curse on other Death Eaters and just how uncomfortable being in his own home is for him is enough to solidify that he's not a wholly evil person, despite being a prick.
Being a Death Eater meant getting your hands dirty, something Draco didn't truly understand the meaning of before he was in over his head. While he enjoys picking fights, Draco has cowardly tendencies when it comes to actually physically duking it out. If he’s caught off-guard, he tends to cry instead of trying to fight back. This seems to change in his fifth/sixth year where he's been known to fight with Harry, but for the most part he'll leave the work to someone else. Draco's also been known to mock people for being afraid of things (Harry and the dementors, for instance) but when faced with his own fears, such as entering the Forbidden Forest at night, he’ll also cry and take off running. Of course, there's also something important that ties into "the other side" of Draco Malfoy when it comes to fighting.
Draco is incredibly protective of the people he truly cares about, especially his mother and his father. He puts himself at several risks in becoming a Death Eater in order to honor his father and his family’s name, protect them from being in harm's way and working himself to the point of physical exhaustion and mental paranoia in the hopes that Voldemort would actually care and spare his family's lives. By no standards is he a Gryffindor, but he will fight tooth and nail to defend his family's honor. And though not a Ravenclaw, he’s also a smart boy, as proven when he was made a Slytherin prefect in his fifth year (never mind the fact that may have had a bit of teacher favoritism action going on there.) Even without that, it's been proven time and time again that he's quite intelligent, given how he excels in certain subjects (see: potions, transfiguration, charms) and given his deductive reasoning skills. He might not seem it, but he's also capable of repairing things and manual work, considering the fact he managed to repair the Vanishing Cabinet on his own. When he was younger, he was greedy for power and he loves receiving praise from his professors and his peers, the best example being when he was part of Professor Umbridge’s Inquisitorial Squad his fifth year, in which he would more or less tattle on Harry and his friends to Professor Umbridge to keep “order” to the school.
Intelligent though he may be, sometimes Draco proves himself rather stupid. There have been times in his past where Draco talks without knowing when to shut up and that gets him in trouble. Need we point out the ferret incident? Whether he realizes it or not, Draco can be easily swayed and manipulated by people who influence him, such as his aunt, Bellatrix Lestange and the other Death Eaters.
Those days have faded though, and Draco as we know him now is a shell of the boy he once was, fearful and almost obedient of the Dark Lord in hopes that he can make things okay again. He doesn't boast, he doesn't stick his nose up, and he doesn't drop those three words echoed most in his childhood, "my father said", anymore. His ideals and his views on the world have changed; watching people die and torturing people can do that to a boy. Of course, will he ever admit that he's weak and needs help? No, of course not. Look at Half-blood Prince where he cried only to Moaning Myrtle, but when Harry discovered him he threw a fit and a fight broke out. Despite everything he's been through, everything he's going through, pride is something that hasn't waivered.
More or less, Draco Malfoy is more complex than one may believe, and not many people see the entirety of his personality. He will either project himself as being stuck up and powerful, or to a very rare amount, he will show his weaknesses. It’s hard to say which side Draco is truly on and for what reasons, seeing how he wants to remain loyal to Voldemort’s side due to his father but he’s also hesitant when it comes to fulfilling the orders of the dark lord, choosing the coward’s way out in several situations. Draco was forced to grow up too fast after his father’s imprisonment, and now he's learning his lessons the hard way.
Abilities
Draco is an intelligent wizard with about seven years of schooling under his belt. Given what we see from him in his canon, it's safe to assume his best subjects are Potions and Transfiguration. After all, what other 12 year old do you know that can conjure a snake? He's been working with potions since he was young, thus giving him years of practice. He's a boy with very sharp deductive skills, making it easier for him to come to conclusions than others. He's also one with a hand for magic repair, given we see him fix a Vanishing Cabinet and utilize it on his own.
In terms of other magic, Draco has mastered the ability to throw and block spells non-verbally. He has also mastered the art of Occlumency, allowing himself to close off his mind so it's impenetrable. Those certainly came in handy during sixth and seventh year, didn't it?
And of course he's a very capable flyer, considering he was Slytherin Seeker for a handful of years. Never mind the fact that he quit his sixth year, those aren't skills that go away on their own. It's like riding a bike.
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