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◎ Character's Name: Draco Malfoy
◎ Character's Canon: Harry Potter
◎ Character's Age: 17
◎ Canon Point: Just after the 5th book, Order of the Phoenix, starts (right before the first day of school) + almost two years ofhigh_seas history.
◎ Background/History:
HP Wiki and also his page on the HP Lexicon.
◎ Is the character a hacker and/or do they have a sixth-sense?
Nope!
◎ Personality:
At first glance, Draco is a spoiled brat and a bully. Plain and simple. His entire purpose in a good chunk of the Harry Potter series is to be Harry's schoolboy nemesis. Though later in the series there are glimpses of the more complex character he is capable of being, he was honestly never intended to be seen in much of a sympathetic light, so his negative qualities far outweigh the positive.
Draco was born into a high class lifestyle which, in the view of his family, basically bordered on being wizard royalty. He is an only child, born to Lucius and Narcissa, and he comes from a long line of pure-blood wizards. Because of this, and due to his father being one of Voldemort's Death Eaters, Draco was raised to believe that 1) wizards are the superior "race", and those without magical blood are basically worthless, and 2) pure-blood wizards are superior in amongst themselves. Mixing bloodlines with the non-magical is something that is entirely looked down upon in Draco's family and circle of acquaintances, and almost worse than that are blood traitors, or those from the wizarding community who did not support Voldemort's reign of terror. Muggle-borns and half-bloods, these are people basically considered abominations to pure-blood supremacists, though muggle-borns (who Draco also refers to as mudbloods, aka people who have "dirty blood") are the bigger problem.
So when we first see Draco in the story, of course the first thing he does is unknowingly insult Harry by suggesting that they shouldn't let the "other sort" into Hogwarts, because why shouldn't everyone believe as he was raised to? It's second nature to him at this point, because he grew up entirely surrounded by his father's friends' families who all believed the same thing. Entering Hogwarts, he is already surrounded by several friends, or lackeys in some cases, who share the same beliefs that he does. Once he realizes just who that boy with the glasses was, though, Draco instantly tries to befriend him due to a misguided hope that many of Voldemort's followers shared that Harry might grow up to be an even darker and more powerful wizard than Tom Riddle himself was. Draco is obviously quickly proven entirely wrong when Harry refuses his hand and instead chooses a member of a blood traitor family, the Weasleys, over him.
And this is the start of Harry and Draco's mutual antagonism toward each other throughout the rest of the series.
Much of Draco's apparent hatred for Harry is honestly based in his jealousy of him. Being shot down from the get-go certainly didn't help matters, considering Draco was very used to getting what he wanted, but that Harry, who wasn't even raised in the wizarding world, can best him in certain areas only made things worse. For instance, one of the things Draco was sure he would be the best at in his year was flying on a broomstick, but because of his own need to show off and make fun of Harry, it was quickly discovered that Harry was actually the more naturally talented one in the air. Throw in Harry's instant popularity due to being the Boy Who Lived, and you have one extremely envious little 11-year-old boy. He then ends up dedicating much of the next five years of his school life to tormenting Harry and his friends. Unfortunately, Draco often doesn't think ahead when it comes to teasing or bullying Harry, and in his eagerness to always get the other boy in trouble, he sometimes winds up in detention himself. Or, you know, he gets turned into a ferret.
Everything changes after the end of their fifth year of school, however.
With Voldemort proven to be back in action and Lucius now in prison, Draco suddenly finds himself in a much different position. Namely, he is forced to join Voldemort's followers in his father's place. At first he considers this an honor, but as is typical for Draco, it soon becomes painfully apparent that he once again did not think things through and is now in way over his head. Though it may be that he did not really even have a choice and was forced to become a Death Eater because Voldemort holds the lives of his parents over his head, and if there is one positive characteristic of Draco, it is his fierce loyalty to his family, whether they deserve it or not. Thus, he spends his entire sixth year at Hogwarts trying to complete his mission to kill Albus Dumbledore, only to find out that he is incapable of doing so. Incapable because he truly does not have it in himself to go through with it. He makes several attempts throughout the year without seeming to care who gets hurt in the process, but even Dumbledore notes that these were halfhearted attempts at best. In the end, after months of declining health due to stress and fear for his parents, Draco actually begins to lower his wand rather than attack. Perhaps he was willing to accept Dumbledore's offer of protection for his mother and himself, but we'll never truly know because of course things immediately go wrong and Draco winds up further sucked into a world he is rapidly realizing he doesn't actually want anything to do with.
Draco, as we have always known throughout the entire series, is extremely good at talking the talk, but not so much at walking the walk. He is very unwilling to actually get his hands dirty as a Death Eater, and is shown to be extremely frightened living in his own home whilst Voldemort occupies it. At this point, the reality of what being a Death Eater meant had finally started to sink in and was just way too much to handle, so he basically reverts to trying to keep his head low and do as told so that he can survive.
Because another thing we have known about Draco since the beginning is that he is also a coward. There are only a few instances where we get a glimpse of the fact that he might be capable of being a stronger character, like when he doesn't identify who Harry is at the manor, and when he orders his comrades not to kill him in the Room of Requirement. But both times he can't seem to follow through and actually side with Harry, as he almost instantly ends up in a half-assed wand fight (that he loses) against Harry at the manor, and at Hogwarts the next time they come across him he is trying to convince a fellow Death Eater that he's on their side so that he won't be killed.
Much of Draco's world seems to revolve around his obsession with Harry, but that is partly because the story is told from Harry's POV. Outside of that, Draco actually seems to function fairly well at school. He is popular in his house (though, yes, Crabbe and Goyle in particular seem to be more subordinates than friends), and is shown to have a sense of humor, though more often than not he enjoys being the reason the others are laughing, rather than laughing with them. He likes being the center of attention and many of his jokes involve making fun of others, whether it's mocking them or doing insulting impressions of them. He does well in his classes, though we know that Hermione has the best grades in their year. In particular, Draco is good at Potions, but there are other classes that he also excels at. He's quick-witted and intelligent outside of classes, too, as he's able to figure out how to fix the Vanishing Cabinets and use them to his advantage. He's also able to master using non-verbal spells before many of his classmates, and in later years we find out he's adept at closing off his mind and compartmentalizing his emotions, thus he is capable of using Occlumency, as well. Though not a positive thing, Draco is also able to use at least two of the three Unforgivable Curses, something that even many adult wizards can't do, and he is skilled enough at the Imperius Curse that he was able to keep Madam Rosmerta under it for almost an entire year. He's a talented flyer and Quidditch player, regardless of the fact that he may or may not have bought his way onto the team. Quidditch seems to be something that he truly enjoys, which is why it was such a huge red flag to Harry when he dropped it in their sixth year.
At the end of everything, Harry and Draco never really become friendly with one another, though as adults they do understand each other better and are able to have a civil relationship. Because of this, it's not a stretch to say that Draco did truly come to regret the choices he made as a child, and it's actually his wishy-washy indecisiveness and reluctance to really be gung-ho Voldemort in the final Hogwarts battle that keeps Draco out of Azkaban.
(Strengths/Weaknsses)
Draco is an incredibly flawed and unlikeable young man, but that doesn't mean that many of his characteristics aren't capable of being seen as positive strengths in a different light. First and foremost, we know that Draco sorted Slytherin, a decision that the Sorting Hat made before really even touching Draco's head. Without going into a whole Slytherin analysis, that tells us that Draco is ambitious, shrewd, and cunning. Slytherins tend to be achievement-oriented and can make strong leaders. They also have a high sense of self-preservation, and we know that Salazar himself desired students who displayed cleverness, resourcefulness, and determination.
Because being ambitious tends to lead towards being power hungry, and that sense of self-preservation can come off as cowardice, Slytherins in general have a bad reputation. It's said that there wasn't a wizard who went bad who wasn't in Slytherin, but of course that's not true. What people like to forget is that nobody is really as black and white as all that, and in fact there are many qualities that are shared between the houses.
Draco, for example, is also fiercely loyal, a quality that is usually reserved for Hufflepuffs. Obviously he is only loyal to a very select few, namely his family, but that doesn't mean the trait isn't there. Draco adores his father, in particular, and many of the decisions he makes are born out of a desire to prove himself to Lucius and make him proud. Said decisions can't ever be fully excused, but Draco is just a child in the early part of the series and a lot of the reason he is the way he is comes from his upbringing.
Being clever, cunning, resourceful, determined -- these are all traits Draco exhibits throughout his years at Hogwarts. Again, rarely used for good reasons, but they're there all the same. Basically, Draco likes to plot and come up with ways to be a little snot to Harry and his friends, whether it's through magic badges or witty song lyrics. When things get more serious, he has to come up with various plans to kill Dumbledore. And when those plans don't work, he remembers the Vanishing Cabinets and is able to fix them and use them to bring the Death Eaters into Hogwarts. This also shows that Draco is evidently able to tinker with things and determine how to magically fix them so that they work again.
As stated before, Draco is smart and does well in school. He's probably best at Potions, due in no little part to the fact that he's a huge teacher's pet and a suck up in that class. However, he's also very skilled at Transfigurations and Charms. In general, Draco is a little more advanced than some of his classmates at learning and using magic, because he was raised in an environment where he was surrounded by it constantly and also because various members of his family taught him outside of school. He is also shown to be a fairly skilled duelist as early as his second year of school, and this hasn't changed by the time he's a sixth year, as he's able to fight Harry using multiple jinxes non-verbally.
And then there's the flying thing again. As a first year, he fully expected to be the only one who could properly use a broom, so Harry's natural talent there was a rather huge blow to the ego. Especially since it's then essentially entirely Draco's fault that Harry made the Quidditch team as a mere first year.
So, regardless of his terrible attitude, Draco is actually a very talented young wizard!
But he does have weaknesses. Oh so many weaknesses, most of which have been covered throughout all this rambling so far.
Draco has a short temper and is very easily riled up. He's a little too arrogant and proud of the fact that he's a pure-blood supremacist. He's got a nasty mouth on him and has no qualms about insulting people to their faces. He also has no issues sucking up to those in higher positions, like teachers, and in general uses brown-nosing to curry favor from others. He acts before he thinks in many cases, which goes back to his temper and the fact that he's basically obsessed with Harry. The two clash horribly and Draco, bully that he is, is quick to pull stunts and say things that only end up getting himself in trouble.
He shows a lot of cowardice throughout the years, and his younger self especially is a huge wimp. This doesn't really change even once he's working under Voldemort's thumb, though. Unhappy as he is being forced to do Voldemort's evil bidding, he still can't bring himself to truly turn against him, and instead he just kind of stays on the fence between both sides and tries to use each to his advantage when it best suits him and to help him stay alive. (But hey, resourcefulness!)
Draco is also...spiteful, mean, a bully, a snob. A right git. A foul, loathsome, evil little cockroach. He's a brat, and though he's kind of inexplicably popular among many fans who will try their absolute best to turn him into a sympathetic, redeemable character (myself included, can't lie), in the end he really is just, in the words of JKR herself, a "really imperfect character" and "not a nice man"...though also not "wholly bad".
◎ Powers/Abilities:
He's a wizard! So he can do magic. Lots and lots of magic. Anything from practical spells to charms to jinxes to curses. Though he is not very proficient at Dark Magic yet, where I pulled him from.
Draco was only 15 when he landed inhigh_seas and was still very much a schoolboy learning various spells and whatnot, and none of them at that point were really crazy powerful. In that game, there was a shop from which he was able to purchase items from back home, so he bought himself the remaining spellbooks for his fifth, sixth, and seventh years at Hogwarts. Not knowing how long he'd be away and refusing to fall behind in his schoolwork, he basically taught himself the material over the course of nearly two years and as such has very much kept up with his studies. His spellwork is on par with any seventh year student, however his Potions work is probably a little behind. Potions, of all things! He wasn't able to set up a proper lab to practice in until about half a year ago, though.
There was a span of about a month or two inhigh_seas when a young version of Draco's mother, Narcissa, actually showed up in the game. So while she was around, she was able to help Draco learn how to Apparate.
He also spent several months studying how to become an Animagus, and as such he can now (quite unluckily) turn into a ferret at will.
...Look, he had a lot of free time on his hands in that game, ahaha. There's only so much to do when you spend months and months living on a ship in the middle of the ocean, okay? XD;
One thing he hasn't managed to teach himself is how to produce a Patronus.
◎ Weapons & Other Special Inventory:
Draco will have his wand on him when he arrives and not much else! Unless he can bring his broom with him...? He bought a Cleansweep Eleven awhile back in his previous game.
CEREALIA-Specific
◎ Element:
Air.
◎ Sense:
Touch. Draco's a wizard, of course, but he needs to be able to hold his wand to perform magic. His wand is very important to him, as is being in touch with his inner magical core. He also is good at tinkering with things and fixing objects, which would involve the need to handle them. Even things like flying a broom and working with potions ingredients involves the need to touch them.
◎ Seven Character Traits:
+ Clever
+ Resourceful
+ Loyal
- Snobbish
- Spiteful
- Cowardly
+/- Ambitious
Samples
◎ First-Person Sample:
♦ (This was his first post inhigh_seas:)
♦ (Somewhere around the one year mark in game:)
♦ (One of his last posts:)
◎ Third-Person Sample:
Exempt!
◎ Is your character retaining any previous game memories?
Oh yes. Draco was inhigh_seas from October, 2013 until September, 2015.
When he first arrived in High Seas, there was also a Harry Potter in the game. Given the option of hanging around with Potter or being stuck by himself in a strange world seemingly full of only Muggles, Draco chose the lesser of the two evils and joined a crew with the other wizard.
It did not go well.
At least, not at first.
Being in forced close quarters with someone he wasn't fond of, to put it lightly, had him nearly permanently in a bad mood. It also didn't help that he couldn't avoid the aforementioned Muggles, as there were several of them on his crew. His captain (one Captain Jack Sparrow) was one of the worst, and though he was around only briefly, he and Draco never got past their antagonistic start. Being ordered around and told to perform normal ship duties and chores without magic certainly didn't help matters.
After a couples months or so had passed, Draco had reached a point where he could actually maybe sort of tolerate Potter (some might've called them friends (barely), but Draco would've denied it), only for the boy wizard to abruptly up and vanish as the player left the game.
This did not make Draco a happy camper. Because as per usual, the Golden Boy got lucky and Draco didn't, as he remained in the game as a lone wizard for most of the rest of his time there. He ship had two more captains after Jack Sparrow, but the one Draco could admit to being closest to was the third captain, Sasuke. Ha..."closest". More like Draco enjoyed pushing the ninja's buttons and confusing him and his brother with various types of Wizarding candies. The most important thing was that Sasuke seemed genuinely interested in Draco's world and in magic -- if also confused by it and not a little skeptical about everything -- and if there's one thing Draco enjoys, it's going on and on about the superiority of the Wizarding World.
By this point, it was abundantly clear that there was no Statute of Secrecy to worry about breaking in this world, though Draco never really stopped attempting to find out if there was some kind of underground Wizarding society. He never had any luck with that, even though there did seem to be some sort of magic at work in the world. But since there was no Statute of Secrecy to deal with and as he was still surrounded by Muggles and the like (also all sorts of other people from really bloody weird worlds), Draco took it upon himself to educate everyone who could actually manage to listen to him for more than five seconds.
Sasuke was just one of the more receptive people to his babbling, and he actually made use of Draco's abilities by bringing him along to help in various game events that involved fighting other pirates (or zombies) and rescuing kidnapped crewmates. The two of them also experimented with new spells, both offensive and defensive, and he supported Draco's studies in the months that they sailed together.
A young version of Draco's mother, Narcissa, joined High Seas for a brief period of about two months. Draco wasn't quite sure how to deal with her, and at first he tried to pretend that he wasn't her future son, that he was just a random, distant cousin of Lucius'. It worked for a time, but he was eventually found out. It was a shock for Narcissa, but they overcame it and she helped him a lot with various things he was working on (like learning how to Apparate, for one). Draco always sort of held her at arm's length, though, because it was just so strange having her there. She made him painfully homesick, and he also felt incredibly protective of her. Overall, he was not entirely disappointed when she vanished and found it almost a relief. (She also wasn't very active, so it was just easier not having her there.)
Unfortunately for Draco, Sasuke also eventually left the game, and Draco had never really formed close ties with the remaining members of his crew on that ship. Entirely his own fault and he would've been the first to admit it (maybe), but that was the same ship he'd joined in the very beginning of the game, and his attitude at that time had been...well, terrible. Frankly. He'd taken his usual snottiness to the max, and as first impressions certainly stick, it was hard to overcome the snobbish and cold front he had put on all those months ago.
After Sasuke left, Draco found himself a new ship to join and was able to enjoy having a clean slate with his new (and final) captain and crew. He actually had only intended to visit their ship to check out the dragon they had (Toothless from HTTYD), and then ended up never leaving. He had another captain, Gan Ning, who appreciated what he could do (they even magically blew up a kraken together and it was awesome), as well as other crewmates he might've actually called friends -- particularly Hiccup, Ariel, and maybe even Roxas.
The other close tie Draco formed in the game was with the captain of another ship, Luffy. Oddly. But Luffy was fascinated with his magic and that's always a quick way to get Draco to tolerate someone!
It was while sailing with Gan Ning's crew that Draco was finally able to complete his Animagus transformation, after months of practicing. Much to his horror, his animal form is that of a white ferret. Still, he's somewhat managed to accept it by now, sort of, and he would even willingly play with Toothless while in that form. ...And Luffy, who then tried to adopt Draco as his pet.
The roughly two years Draco spent in the game changed him a bit. Mostly, they softened his attitude toward Muggles and different sorts of people, because frankly he didn't have a choice but to live with them. The structure of the game meant he had to have a ship and crew, and he wouldn't have done well if he'd tried to sail alone. If asked, Draco would probably still spout off a bunch of pure-blood superiority nonsense, and he would almost certainly still say he supported Voldemort's cause...but for him, those sort of things have basically just been put on hold for two years. He has no idea what might be going on in the Wizarding World back home, but he has no reason to believe that he wouldn't just pick up right where he left off once he eventually returns.
For now, it's something he doesn't have to think about. And he's not particularly disappointed about that. If he really thought about it, he might find his feelings on the matter confused. Because now that he knows a lot of people who don't have magic, who he's lived with and who have helped him over the months, it might be difficult to imagine causing them harm.
But it's easy to block those thoughts out entirely when he doesn't have to think about them.
High Seas was set in a "pirate age" of sorts, and living on a ship meant Draco didn't get to enjoy very many classy amenities. There wasn't any sort of technology in that world either, which, while not very different from his own modern day Wizarding World, means that the city in Cerealia will be quite a shock!
Draco still likes to act all high and mighty, mostly because he gets a kick out of it. His journal posts in High Seas always bordered on ridiculous, something he would do on purpose. That's not to say it was all an act, but a lot of it is at least partially one. It's almost a defensive mechanism for Draco, and one that he used plenty to avoid seeming vulnerable as a 15-year-old boy thrust into that strange, mad world. The whole superior, looking-down-your-nose-at-people thing is something he's definitely good at.
But that doesn't mean that he didn't learn to respect the people around him -- even if they came from very, very different worlds.
Of course, he also continues to have zero problems mouthing off to those people who he still very much views as being below himself. And there are definitely still plenty of people like that.
Draco was pulled out of High Seas during its end game (then he reappeared again for the final game log), so he'll be thoroughly confused and more than a little pissed off to be somewhere else entirely that ISN'T HOME, for Merlin's sake, why.
Honestly, is he ever going to see England again?
So, some basic points to sum up:
♦ Original canon point: very beginning of Order of the Phoenix, the day before school started. He was fifteen.
♦ Since then: Draco spent two years in another game called High Seas. He is now seventeen.
♦ Because he has been living on a ship on the ocean for the past two years, he's probably not as pale as you would expect him to be.
♦ His hair is also slightly longer and a little more unkempt than he normally wears it in the books.
♦ Draco can Apparate, and he is an Animagus. Much to his eternal disappointment and disgust, he transforms into a white ferret.
♦ He cannot produce a Patronus.
♦ The broomstick Draco is bringing with him from High Seas is a Cleansweep Eleven.
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Character Info
◎ Character's Name: Draco Malfoy
◎ Character's Canon: Harry Potter
◎ Character's Age: 17
◎ Canon Point: Just after the 5th book, Order of the Phoenix, starts (right before the first day of school) + almost two years of
high_seas history.◎ Background/History:
HP Wiki and also his page on the HP Lexicon.
◎ Is the character a hacker and/or do they have a sixth-sense?
Nope!
◎ Personality:
At first glance, Draco is a spoiled brat and a bully. Plain and simple. His entire purpose in a good chunk of the Harry Potter series is to be Harry's schoolboy nemesis. Though later in the series there are glimpses of the more complex character he is capable of being, he was honestly never intended to be seen in much of a sympathetic light, so his negative qualities far outweigh the positive.
Draco was born into a high class lifestyle which, in the view of his family, basically bordered on being wizard royalty. He is an only child, born to Lucius and Narcissa, and he comes from a long line of pure-blood wizards. Because of this, and due to his father being one of Voldemort's Death Eaters, Draco was raised to believe that 1) wizards are the superior "race", and those without magical blood are basically worthless, and 2) pure-blood wizards are superior in amongst themselves. Mixing bloodlines with the non-magical is something that is entirely looked down upon in Draco's family and circle of acquaintances, and almost worse than that are blood traitors, or those from the wizarding community who did not support Voldemort's reign of terror. Muggle-borns and half-bloods, these are people basically considered abominations to pure-blood supremacists, though muggle-borns (who Draco also refers to as mudbloods, aka people who have "dirty blood") are the bigger problem.
So when we first see Draco in the story, of course the first thing he does is unknowingly insult Harry by suggesting that they shouldn't let the "other sort" into Hogwarts, because why shouldn't everyone believe as he was raised to? It's second nature to him at this point, because he grew up entirely surrounded by his father's friends' families who all believed the same thing. Entering Hogwarts, he is already surrounded by several friends, or lackeys in some cases, who share the same beliefs that he does. Once he realizes just who that boy with the glasses was, though, Draco instantly tries to befriend him due to a misguided hope that many of Voldemort's followers shared that Harry might grow up to be an even darker and more powerful wizard than Tom Riddle himself was. Draco is obviously quickly proven entirely wrong when Harry refuses his hand and instead chooses a member of a blood traitor family, the Weasleys, over him.
And this is the start of Harry and Draco's mutual antagonism toward each other throughout the rest of the series.
Much of Draco's apparent hatred for Harry is honestly based in his jealousy of him. Being shot down from the get-go certainly didn't help matters, considering Draco was very used to getting what he wanted, but that Harry, who wasn't even raised in the wizarding world, can best him in certain areas only made things worse. For instance, one of the things Draco was sure he would be the best at in his year was flying on a broomstick, but because of his own need to show off and make fun of Harry, it was quickly discovered that Harry was actually the more naturally talented one in the air. Throw in Harry's instant popularity due to being the Boy Who Lived, and you have one extremely envious little 11-year-old boy. He then ends up dedicating much of the next five years of his school life to tormenting Harry and his friends. Unfortunately, Draco often doesn't think ahead when it comes to teasing or bullying Harry, and in his eagerness to always get the other boy in trouble, he sometimes winds up in detention himself. Or, you know, he gets turned into a ferret.
Everything changes after the end of their fifth year of school, however.
With Voldemort proven to be back in action and Lucius now in prison, Draco suddenly finds himself in a much different position. Namely, he is forced to join Voldemort's followers in his father's place. At first he considers this an honor, but as is typical for Draco, it soon becomes painfully apparent that he once again did not think things through and is now in way over his head. Though it may be that he did not really even have a choice and was forced to become a Death Eater because Voldemort holds the lives of his parents over his head, and if there is one positive characteristic of Draco, it is his fierce loyalty to his family, whether they deserve it or not. Thus, he spends his entire sixth year at Hogwarts trying to complete his mission to kill Albus Dumbledore, only to find out that he is incapable of doing so. Incapable because he truly does not have it in himself to go through with it. He makes several attempts throughout the year without seeming to care who gets hurt in the process, but even Dumbledore notes that these were halfhearted attempts at best. In the end, after months of declining health due to stress and fear for his parents, Draco actually begins to lower his wand rather than attack. Perhaps he was willing to accept Dumbledore's offer of protection for his mother and himself, but we'll never truly know because of course things immediately go wrong and Draco winds up further sucked into a world he is rapidly realizing he doesn't actually want anything to do with.
Draco, as we have always known throughout the entire series, is extremely good at talking the talk, but not so much at walking the walk. He is very unwilling to actually get his hands dirty as a Death Eater, and is shown to be extremely frightened living in his own home whilst Voldemort occupies it. At this point, the reality of what being a Death Eater meant had finally started to sink in and was just way too much to handle, so he basically reverts to trying to keep his head low and do as told so that he can survive.
Because another thing we have known about Draco since the beginning is that he is also a coward. There are only a few instances where we get a glimpse of the fact that he might be capable of being a stronger character, like when he doesn't identify who Harry is at the manor, and when he orders his comrades not to kill him in the Room of Requirement. But both times he can't seem to follow through and actually side with Harry, as he almost instantly ends up in a half-assed wand fight (that he loses) against Harry at the manor, and at Hogwarts the next time they come across him he is trying to convince a fellow Death Eater that he's on their side so that he won't be killed.
Much of Draco's world seems to revolve around his obsession with Harry, but that is partly because the story is told from Harry's POV. Outside of that, Draco actually seems to function fairly well at school. He is popular in his house (though, yes, Crabbe and Goyle in particular seem to be more subordinates than friends), and is shown to have a sense of humor, though more often than not he enjoys being the reason the others are laughing, rather than laughing with them. He likes being the center of attention and many of his jokes involve making fun of others, whether it's mocking them or doing insulting impressions of them. He does well in his classes, though we know that Hermione has the best grades in their year. In particular, Draco is good at Potions, but there are other classes that he also excels at. He's quick-witted and intelligent outside of classes, too, as he's able to figure out how to fix the Vanishing Cabinets and use them to his advantage. He's also able to master using non-verbal spells before many of his classmates, and in later years we find out he's adept at closing off his mind and compartmentalizing his emotions, thus he is capable of using Occlumency, as well. Though not a positive thing, Draco is also able to use at least two of the three Unforgivable Curses, something that even many adult wizards can't do, and he is skilled enough at the Imperius Curse that he was able to keep Madam Rosmerta under it for almost an entire year. He's a talented flyer and Quidditch player, regardless of the fact that he may or may not have bought his way onto the team. Quidditch seems to be something that he truly enjoys, which is why it was such a huge red flag to Harry when he dropped it in their sixth year.
At the end of everything, Harry and Draco never really become friendly with one another, though as adults they do understand each other better and are able to have a civil relationship. Because of this, it's not a stretch to say that Draco did truly come to regret the choices he made as a child, and it's actually his wishy-washy indecisiveness and reluctance to really be gung-ho Voldemort in the final Hogwarts battle that keeps Draco out of Azkaban.
(Strengths/Weaknsses)
Draco is an incredibly flawed and unlikeable young man, but that doesn't mean that many of his characteristics aren't capable of being seen as positive strengths in a different light. First and foremost, we know that Draco sorted Slytherin, a decision that the Sorting Hat made before really even touching Draco's head. Without going into a whole Slytherin analysis, that tells us that Draco is ambitious, shrewd, and cunning. Slytherins tend to be achievement-oriented and can make strong leaders. They also have a high sense of self-preservation, and we know that Salazar himself desired students who displayed cleverness, resourcefulness, and determination.
Because being ambitious tends to lead towards being power hungry, and that sense of self-preservation can come off as cowardice, Slytherins in general have a bad reputation. It's said that there wasn't a wizard who went bad who wasn't in Slytherin, but of course that's not true. What people like to forget is that nobody is really as black and white as all that, and in fact there are many qualities that are shared between the houses.
Draco, for example, is also fiercely loyal, a quality that is usually reserved for Hufflepuffs. Obviously he is only loyal to a very select few, namely his family, but that doesn't mean the trait isn't there. Draco adores his father, in particular, and many of the decisions he makes are born out of a desire to prove himself to Lucius and make him proud. Said decisions can't ever be fully excused, but Draco is just a child in the early part of the series and a lot of the reason he is the way he is comes from his upbringing.
Being clever, cunning, resourceful, determined -- these are all traits Draco exhibits throughout his years at Hogwarts. Again, rarely used for good reasons, but they're there all the same. Basically, Draco likes to plot and come up with ways to be a little snot to Harry and his friends, whether it's through magic badges or witty song lyrics. When things get more serious, he has to come up with various plans to kill Dumbledore. And when those plans don't work, he remembers the Vanishing Cabinets and is able to fix them and use them to bring the Death Eaters into Hogwarts. This also shows that Draco is evidently able to tinker with things and determine how to magically fix them so that they work again.
As stated before, Draco is smart and does well in school. He's probably best at Potions, due in no little part to the fact that he's a huge teacher's pet and a suck up in that class. However, he's also very skilled at Transfigurations and Charms. In general, Draco is a little more advanced than some of his classmates at learning and using magic, because he was raised in an environment where he was surrounded by it constantly and also because various members of his family taught him outside of school. He is also shown to be a fairly skilled duelist as early as his second year of school, and this hasn't changed by the time he's a sixth year, as he's able to fight Harry using multiple jinxes non-verbally.
And then there's the flying thing again. As a first year, he fully expected to be the only one who could properly use a broom, so Harry's natural talent there was a rather huge blow to the ego. Especially since it's then essentially entirely Draco's fault that Harry made the Quidditch team as a mere first year.
So, regardless of his terrible attitude, Draco is actually a very talented young wizard!
But he does have weaknesses. Oh so many weaknesses, most of which have been covered throughout all this rambling so far.
Draco has a short temper and is very easily riled up. He's a little too arrogant and proud of the fact that he's a pure-blood supremacist. He's got a nasty mouth on him and has no qualms about insulting people to their faces. He also has no issues sucking up to those in higher positions, like teachers, and in general uses brown-nosing to curry favor from others. He acts before he thinks in many cases, which goes back to his temper and the fact that he's basically obsessed with Harry. The two clash horribly and Draco, bully that he is, is quick to pull stunts and say things that only end up getting himself in trouble.
He shows a lot of cowardice throughout the years, and his younger self especially is a huge wimp. This doesn't really change even once he's working under Voldemort's thumb, though. Unhappy as he is being forced to do Voldemort's evil bidding, he still can't bring himself to truly turn against him, and instead he just kind of stays on the fence between both sides and tries to use each to his advantage when it best suits him and to help him stay alive. (But hey, resourcefulness!)
Draco is also...spiteful, mean, a bully, a snob. A right git. A foul, loathsome, evil little cockroach. He's a brat, and though he's kind of inexplicably popular among many fans who will try their absolute best to turn him into a sympathetic, redeemable character (myself included, can't lie), in the end he really is just, in the words of JKR herself, a "really imperfect character" and "not a nice man"...though also not "wholly bad".
◎ Powers/Abilities:
He's a wizard! So he can do magic. Lots and lots of magic. Anything from practical spells to charms to jinxes to curses. Though he is not very proficient at Dark Magic yet, where I pulled him from.
Draco was only 15 when he landed in
high_seas and was still very much a schoolboy learning various spells and whatnot, and none of them at that point were really crazy powerful. In that game, there was a shop from which he was able to purchase items from back home, so he bought himself the remaining spellbooks for his fifth, sixth, and seventh years at Hogwarts. Not knowing how long he'd be away and refusing to fall behind in his schoolwork, he basically taught himself the material over the course of nearly two years and as such has very much kept up with his studies. His spellwork is on par with any seventh year student, however his Potions work is probably a little behind. Potions, of all things! He wasn't able to set up a proper lab to practice in until about half a year ago, though.There was a span of about a month or two in
high_seas when a young version of Draco's mother, Narcissa, actually showed up in the game. So while she was around, she was able to help Draco learn how to Apparate.He also spent several months studying how to become an Animagus, and as such he can now (quite unluckily) turn into a ferret at will.
...Look, he had a lot of free time on his hands in that game, ahaha. There's only so much to do when you spend months and months living on a ship in the middle of the ocean, okay? XD;
One thing he hasn't managed to teach himself is how to produce a Patronus.
◎ Weapons & Other Special Inventory:
Draco will have his wand on him when he arrives and not much else! Unless he can bring his broom with him...? He bought a Cleansweep Eleven awhile back in his previous game.
CEREALIA-Specific
◎ Element:
Air.
◎ Sense:
Touch. Draco's a wizard, of course, but he needs to be able to hold his wand to perform magic. His wand is very important to him, as is being in touch with his inner magical core. He also is good at tinkering with things and fixing objects, which would involve the need to handle them. Even things like flying a broom and working with potions ingredients involves the need to touch them.
◎ Seven Character Traits:
+ Clever
+ Resourceful
+ Loyal
- Snobbish
- Spiteful
- Cowardly
+/- Ambitious
Samples
◎ First-Person Sample:
♦ (This was his first post in
high_seas:)- Dear obviously magically possessed evil journal thing,
Father always told me not to write in cursed diaries like this. Actually, it was a pretty specific rule of his which suggests this can only end badly. Especially considering I've seen that this one writes back, and with exceptionally bad grammar, at that.
But I suppose it's not as though this entire situation could get any worse anyway because I DON'T HAVE A BLOODY CLUE WHERE I AM.
Evidently I'm to look at a fountain and get on a ship?? Which is stupid. All of this is stupid, honestly, whoever it was that slipped me a bad Portkey is being turned into a frog when I get home.
Why a ship, anyway? Surely brooms are much faster.
Muggles. The whole lot of them are clueless.
- Draco Malfoy
♦ (Somewhere around the one year mark in game:)
- Dear magic diary that the entire world can read, so no, I shan't be writing down my innermost thoughts, you great dirty wanker,
I'm bored. I've exhausted my supply of spellbooks and I think if I see the words 'Defense', 'Dark' or 'Arts' again in the near future, I shall blast them straight from the page. Or hex the person's mouth shut who dared to say them in my presence.
I believe it might be time to check with Miss Margie again to see if she has anything more advanced available. Or at the very least, perhaps I should see about setting up a potions lab onboard. I'm dreadfully behind in that subject, which is utter bollocks considering it's the best one. I don't know that I'd be able to keep a readily available stash of supplies here, though. And probably working with potions on a wooden ship isn't the brightest idea.
Alas.
It's unfortunate that being able to Apparate isn't entirely useful in this world. I'm going to ask my mother to teach me anyway. It'll save me having to take a long trip from my quarters to the galley, in any case.
Potter disappeared again awhile back, I don't believe I mentioned it. Though none of you care, and you're right not to, because he's a tit.
Sasuke is gone now, too. And Itachi. I've no one to confuse with my chocolate frogs anymore.
Is that bloke with the dragon still here? I don't think I ever actually spoke to him, but Sasuke drew a picture of the dragon once. Even though it looked like a bug. Dragons in my world are generally quite vicious, so if that one is still here and hasn't yet set fire to the ship it's sailing on, that's really very interesting.
I'd like to see him.
- Draco Malfoy
P.S. Did anyone kill that Corpse King nutter?
♦ (One of his last posts:)
- Dear PEOPLE WHO CAN'T REMEMBER BIRTHDAYS,
I suppose it's my fault, really. I failed to remind anyone this year, coupled with the minor detail that at this time last year I was on an entirely different crew.
Not to mention that most everyone who got me a present last year is no longer around.
But regardless, my birthday passed three days ago. I'm seventeen now! It's rather depressing to think I've had two birthdays in this place, though.
Our numbers are dwindling rapidly, aren't they? Honestly, it feels as though there can't be more than twenty of us here. I'm know I'm useful and an extremely valuable asset to have around, but I'd be lying if I said I wasn't surprised that bloody pirate has kept me here for so long.
- Draco Malfoy
P.S. It's never too late for presents. Or birthday parties. I'm just saying.
◎ Third-Person Sample:
Exempt!
◎ Is your character retaining any previous game memories?
Oh yes. Draco was in
high_seas from October, 2013 until September, 2015.When he first arrived in High Seas, there was also a Harry Potter in the game. Given the option of hanging around with Potter or being stuck by himself in a strange world seemingly full of only Muggles, Draco chose the lesser of the two evils and joined a crew with the other wizard.
It did not go well.
At least, not at first.
Being in forced close quarters with someone he wasn't fond of, to put it lightly, had him nearly permanently in a bad mood. It also didn't help that he couldn't avoid the aforementioned Muggles, as there were several of them on his crew. His captain (one Captain Jack Sparrow) was one of the worst, and though he was around only briefly, he and Draco never got past their antagonistic start. Being ordered around and told to perform normal ship duties and chores without magic certainly didn't help matters.
After a couples months or so had passed, Draco had reached a point where he could actually maybe sort of tolerate Potter (some might've called them friends (barely), but Draco would've denied it), only for the boy wizard to abruptly up and vanish as the player left the game.
This did not make Draco a happy camper. Because as per usual, the Golden Boy got lucky and Draco didn't, as he remained in the game as a lone wizard for most of the rest of his time there. He ship had two more captains after Jack Sparrow, but the one Draco could admit to being closest to was the third captain, Sasuke. Ha..."closest". More like Draco enjoyed pushing the ninja's buttons and confusing him and his brother with various types of Wizarding candies. The most important thing was that Sasuke seemed genuinely interested in Draco's world and in magic -- if also confused by it and not a little skeptical about everything -- and if there's one thing Draco enjoys, it's going on and on about the superiority of the Wizarding World.
By this point, it was abundantly clear that there was no Statute of Secrecy to worry about breaking in this world, though Draco never really stopped attempting to find out if there was some kind of underground Wizarding society. He never had any luck with that, even though there did seem to be some sort of magic at work in the world. But since there was no Statute of Secrecy to deal with and as he was still surrounded by Muggles and the like (also all sorts of other people from really bloody weird worlds), Draco took it upon himself to educate everyone who could actually manage to listen to him for more than five seconds.
Sasuke was just one of the more receptive people to his babbling, and he actually made use of Draco's abilities by bringing him along to help in various game events that involved fighting other pirates (or zombies) and rescuing kidnapped crewmates. The two of them also experimented with new spells, both offensive and defensive, and he supported Draco's studies in the months that they sailed together.
A young version of Draco's mother, Narcissa, joined High Seas for a brief period of about two months. Draco wasn't quite sure how to deal with her, and at first he tried to pretend that he wasn't her future son, that he was just a random, distant cousin of Lucius'. It worked for a time, but he was eventually found out. It was a shock for Narcissa, but they overcame it and she helped him a lot with various things he was working on (like learning how to Apparate, for one). Draco always sort of held her at arm's length, though, because it was just so strange having her there. She made him painfully homesick, and he also felt incredibly protective of her. Overall, he was not entirely disappointed when she vanished and found it almost a relief. (She also wasn't very active, so it was just easier not having her there.)
Unfortunately for Draco, Sasuke also eventually left the game, and Draco had never really formed close ties with the remaining members of his crew on that ship. Entirely his own fault and he would've been the first to admit it (maybe), but that was the same ship he'd joined in the very beginning of the game, and his attitude at that time had been...well, terrible. Frankly. He'd taken his usual snottiness to the max, and as first impressions certainly stick, it was hard to overcome the snobbish and cold front he had put on all those months ago.
After Sasuke left, Draco found himself a new ship to join and was able to enjoy having a clean slate with his new (and final) captain and crew. He actually had only intended to visit their ship to check out the dragon they had (Toothless from HTTYD), and then ended up never leaving. He had another captain, Gan Ning, who appreciated what he could do (they even magically blew up a kraken together and it was awesome), as well as other crewmates he might've actually called friends -- particularly Hiccup, Ariel, and maybe even Roxas.
The other close tie Draco formed in the game was with the captain of another ship, Luffy. Oddly. But Luffy was fascinated with his magic and that's always a quick way to get Draco to tolerate someone!
It was while sailing with Gan Ning's crew that Draco was finally able to complete his Animagus transformation, after months of practicing. Much to his horror, his animal form is that of a white ferret. Still, he's somewhat managed to accept it by now, sort of, and he would even willingly play with Toothless while in that form. ...And Luffy, who then tried to adopt Draco as his pet.
The roughly two years Draco spent in the game changed him a bit. Mostly, they softened his attitude toward Muggles and different sorts of people, because frankly he didn't have a choice but to live with them. The structure of the game meant he had to have a ship and crew, and he wouldn't have done well if he'd tried to sail alone. If asked, Draco would probably still spout off a bunch of pure-blood superiority nonsense, and he would almost certainly still say he supported Voldemort's cause...but for him, those sort of things have basically just been put on hold for two years. He has no idea what might be going on in the Wizarding World back home, but he has no reason to believe that he wouldn't just pick up right where he left off once he eventually returns.
For now, it's something he doesn't have to think about. And he's not particularly disappointed about that. If he really thought about it, he might find his feelings on the matter confused. Because now that he knows a lot of people who don't have magic, who he's lived with and who have helped him over the months, it might be difficult to imagine causing them harm.
But it's easy to block those thoughts out entirely when he doesn't have to think about them.
High Seas was set in a "pirate age" of sorts, and living on a ship meant Draco didn't get to enjoy very many classy amenities. There wasn't any sort of technology in that world either, which, while not very different from his own modern day Wizarding World, means that the city in Cerealia will be quite a shock!
Draco still likes to act all high and mighty, mostly because he gets a kick out of it. His journal posts in High Seas always bordered on ridiculous, something he would do on purpose. That's not to say it was all an act, but a lot of it is at least partially one. It's almost a defensive mechanism for Draco, and one that he used plenty to avoid seeming vulnerable as a 15-year-old boy thrust into that strange, mad world. The whole superior, looking-down-your-nose-at-people thing is something he's definitely good at.
But that doesn't mean that he didn't learn to respect the people around him -- even if they came from very, very different worlds.
Of course, he also continues to have zero problems mouthing off to those people who he still very much views as being below himself. And there are definitely still plenty of people like that.
Draco was pulled out of High Seas during its end game (then he reappeared again for the final game log), so he'll be thoroughly confused and more than a little pissed off to be somewhere else entirely that ISN'T HOME, for Merlin's sake, why.
Honestly, is he ever going to see England again?
So, some basic points to sum up:
♦ Original canon point: very beginning of Order of the Phoenix, the day before school started. He was fifteen.
♦ Since then: Draco spent two years in another game called High Seas. He is now seventeen.
♦ Because he has been living on a ship on the ocean for the past two years, he's probably not as pale as you would expect him to be.
♦ His hair is also slightly longer and a little more unkempt than he normally wears it in the books.
♦ Draco can Apparate, and he is an Animagus. Much to his eternal disappointment and disgust, he transforms into a white ferret.
♦ He cannot produce a Patronus.
♦ The broomstick Draco is bringing with him from High Seas is a Cleansweep Eleven.