Draco Malfoy's Gang

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## Organisation Information

### Known Members

* Vincent Crabbe
* Gregory Goyle
* Pansy Parkinson
* Pike
* Blaise Zabini

### Intentions

* Bullying
* Assassinate Albus Dumbledore
* Assist Death Eaters

### Affiliation

* Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry
	+ Slytherin
	+ Inquisitorial Squad (Disbanded)
* The Fantastics
* Death Eaters

### Enemies

* The Trio
* Dumbledore's Army
* Muggle-Borns
* Blood Traitors

**Draco Malfoy's Gang** was a group of Slytherins who were often the children of Death Eaters, and/or Voldemort sympathisers. The leader of the group was Draco Malfoy, the son of a well-known Death Eater and wealthy pure-blood, Lucius Malfoy, hence their name.

Most of the members were not just children of Death Eaters, but also pure-bloods who used their status in order to assert their dominance as wizards. At least Vincent Crabbe and Gregory Goyle's fathers were known Death Eaters. That may be the reason they knew each other so well, seeing as Draco made friends with them shortly after meeting in their first year at Hogwarts.

The gang generally used their abilities and statuses to bully and terrorize the other students of different houses at Hogwarts, especially the younger students. Draco and his gang frequently antagonized Harry Potter and his friends, and Malfoy also used his position as prefect to bully some first years when he got the power in his fifth year. Their main target of hatred were Muggle-borns and Blood traitors alike.

## History

### 1991–1992 School Year

Draco Malfoy showed up on the Hogwarts Express in September of 1991 with Vincent Crabbe and Gregory Goyle in tow. The length of their acquaintance prior to that time is unknown, but this was the start of Draco's gang while at Hogwarts. From the beginning, Draco antagonized Harry Potter, with or without his gang around. This worsened when Harry was seen in the company of Ronald Weasley (about whom Draco was told by his father that his family were 'blood traitors'), and later was seen with Hermione Granger (who was Muggle-born).

Another instance of the gang bullying Harry and Ron was when Harry was challenged to a duel by Draco, which Harry went to; Draco alerted Argus Filch that he'd overheard people planning to meet at the place where he'd set up the duel, and Filch almost caught Harry and Ron (and Neville Longbottom and Hermione, who'd tagged along). Future members of the gang - specifically Pansy Parkinson and Blaise Zabini - were are also sorted into Slytherin House alongside Draco.

### 1992–1993 School Year

In 1992, Draco Malfoy joined the Slytherin Quidditch team as Seeker (by buying his way in), which led to more bullying of Harry Potter and friends by his gang, as Harry was in the Gryffindor Quidditch team and would frequently have matches against the Slytherin team. Later in the year, Harry Potter and Ron Weasley used Polyjuice Potion to impersonate two of the gang, Vincent Crabbe and Gregory Goyle, to discover if Draco Malfoy was the Heir of Slytherin.

### 1993–1994 School Year

In 1993, during the Gryffindor Quidditch match against Ravenclaw, members of Draco's gang tried to sabotage Harry Potter by pretending there was a Dementor behind him. While at lessons for Care for Magical Creatures, when Malfoy was injured by a Hippogriff, Pansy Parkinson criticized Rubeus Hagrid, who had been teaching the class, for letting him get hurt.

Later on in the school year, Draco was slapped hard by Hermione for cruelly laughing at a distressed Hagrid, which shocked Malfoy and his gang, leaving Crabbe and Goyle specifically utterly dumbfounded.

### 1994–1995 School Year

Before the start of the school year, Draco, Crabbe, and Goyle antagonized Harry and Ron on the Hogwarts Express. Later when Harry was selected as the fourth Triwizard Tournament, Malfoy's gang and the rest of the Slytherins began mocking him by wearing "POTTER STINKS" badges.

In the dungeons before the start of a Potions lesson, Malfoy and his friends antagonized Harry again, which resulted in Harry and Malfoy engaging in a brief duel with each other, but with their spells missing their targets; Malfoy's *Densaugeo* hex hit Hermione, and Harry's Pimple Jinx hit Goyle.

### 1995–1996 School Year

In 1995, at the beginning of the school year, Pansy Parkinson and Draco Malfoy become Slytherin Prefects. Vincent Crabbe and Gregory Goyle joined the Slytherin Quidditch team as Beaters. Later, under Dolores Umbridge's control of Hogwarts, many in the gang were appointed members of the Inquisitorial Squad and given powers to dock points beyond those of Prefects. Malfoy's gang was very loyal to Umbridge. This year Malfoy was also seen in the company of Theodore Nott, a small, weedy boy who was also the son of a Death Eater.

### 1996–1997 School Year

In 1996, Harry Potter spied on Malfoy's gang and Hope Mikaelson on the Hogwarts Express using his Invisibility Cloak to see if Malfoy was a Death Eater as he suspected. It is also revealed just how in love Hope is with Draco, as she was snuggled in his arms as she slept. The gang unknowingly helped Malfoy to kill Dumbledore (they know they were helping him, but not what he was trying to accomplish).

Crabbe and Goyle, using Polyjuice Potion, also stood watch outside the Room of Requirement while Draco attempted to repair the Vanishing Cabinet inside. Although Nott was again seen in Draco's company, this time in Horace Slughorn's Potions class, he remained outside of the gang, probably of his own free will. Despite the gang still assisting Draco to their full power, Draco himself started to distant himself from them, not telling them anything.

### 1997–1998 School Year

Throughout most of 1997–1998 school year, Draco Malfoy was separated from his gang, following the events at the top of the Astronomy Tower at the end of the previous year. He and his family out of favor with Lord Voldemort, he was put to ill use by the Dark Lord, forced to torture others who had earned Voldemort's disfavor via the Cruciatus Curse. Meanwhile, the members of his gang attended Hogwarts, receiving preferential treatment both for being Pure-bloods and members of Slytherin House. Some of the gang were appointed by the Carrows to use the Cruciatus Curse to punish misbehaving students.

Just prior to the Battle of Hogwarts, Pansy Parkinson was held at wand-point by almost the entirety of the Gryffindors, Hufflepuffs, and Ravenclaws when she suggested turning Harry over to Voldemort. During the Battle of Hogwarts, Draco Malfoy returned to Hogwarts as part of the attacking group and reunited with Vincent Crabbe, Gregory Goyle, and Blaise Zabini. The group attempted to ambush Harry Potter in the Room of Requirement.

Crabbe and Goyle died when Crabbe could not control the Fiendfyre he conjured, while Draco and Blaise climbed high up on a stack of desks to avoid the flames. They were both rescued by Harry, Ron, and Hermione using broomsticks. In the aftermath of the war, Draco escaped punishment by the Ministry of Magic thanks in part to Harry and Hope's testimony about his innocence in Albus Dumbledore's death and because of his mother, Narcissa Malfoy and his aunt Emilia Black's actions in lying to the Dark Lord about Potter and Mikaelson's deaths.