Draco Malfoy in The Prisoner

*This article is about Draco Malfoy as depicted in* The Prisoner*. For a more general description, and/or links to similar articles covering other stories, see Draco Malfoy.*

## Biographical information

### Also known as

* Duh! (by Caelum
* Master Draco (by house-elves)

## Psychological profile

### Dislikes

* Bellatrix Lestrange
* Being touched

## Relationship information

### Relatives

* Lucius Malfoy (father)
* Narcissa Malfoy (mother)
* Caelum Malfoy (son)
* Bellatrix Lestrange née Black (maternal aunt)
* Rodolphus Lestrange (maternal uncle by marriage)
* Andromeda Tonks née Black (maternal aunt)
* †Ted Tonks (maternal uncle by marriage)
* †Nymphadora Lupin née Tonks (maternal cousin)

### Romances

* Pansy Parkinson (former girlfriend)
* Bellatrix Lestrange (rapist)
* Luna Lovegood

## Affiliation

### House

Slytherin

In the summer of 1996, after Draco takes the Dark Mark, Bellatrix Lestrange decides to create a perfectly pure pure-blood by joining two branches of the Black family tree. Draco is disgusted by the idea but cannot evade her Imperius, nor the Incarcerous or Cruciatus in the following nights; eventually he stops resisting in order to lessen the physical pain, although the emotional hurt (and the self-hatred for his biological reactions in the absence of direct pain) only grows worse. It finally ends a week before school starts, when Bellatrix finds herself pregnant and thus has no more need of his "help". However, when the child is born two months early and with several medical issues, she declares that Draco should kill it and that they will try again next summer. Draco, seeing himself in the baby's features, instead takes his son to St Mungo's for treatment; for the rest of the term, he sneaks out of school most nights to visit – delaying the completion of the Vanishing Cabinet repair until early June – and drops out entirely from his seventh year.

Having lost any faith he may have had in the pure-blood supremacy cause, he uses the need to care for his son as a reason to abstain from participating in Death Eater raids, so when Luna Lovegood is kidnapped at Christmas of 1997 it is soon suggested that she is set to work as a nursery maid to free Draco to do the Dark Lord's bidding. When Draco returns, a few hours after midnight, he finds Luna sleeping in his bed (because she didn't have anywhere else to sleep) and his immediate reaction is to throw her out, accusing her of trying to seduce him in order to gain "preferential treatment" – which he assures her she will not get. He has recurrent nightmares about the abuse and does not like being touched.

As he starts getting used to Luna's presence over the next few days, he begins to think in terms of keeping her out of harm's way, if nothing else because it would be better for Caelum, and after she is forced to join him at the Death Eaters' dinner, where she draws the attention of some of the men, he gives her a knife to protect herself with when he is not around. He also chooses not to countermand her request that the house-elves bring her left-over food to Dean Thomas and Mr Ollivander, who are still kept in the dungeon.

## Physical description

As a death eater, he wears a mask featuring a carved dragon design.

## Relationships

He claims never to have had a real friend, and spurns Luna's offer of being one ("Who said I need a friend?").

## Trivia

* He is fluent enough in at least two foreign languages to swear in them when he gets sufficiently angry ("an impressive string of curses in three languages", presumably including English)

## References

1. ↑ *The Prisoner*, Prologue
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 *The Prisoner*, Chapter 1
3. ↑ *The Prisoner*, Chapter 2
4. ↑ *The Prisoner*, Chapter 3
5. ↑ *The Prisoner*, Chapter 4
6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 *The Prisoner*, Chapter 5
7. ↑ *The Prisoner*, Chapter 6