Draco Malfoy's gang

**Draco Malfoy**: "*Having a last meal, Potter? When are you getting the train back to the Muggles?*"
**Harry Potter**: "*You’re a lot braver now that you’re back on the ground and you’ve got your little friends with you.*"
— Harry Potter noting the gang's cowardly and codepedent nature[src]

**Draco Malfoy's gang** was a group of Slytherins who were often the children of Death Eaters, and/or Voldemort sympathisers. Most of them hung around Draco Malfoy, the son of a well-known Death Eater and wealthy pure-blood, Lucius Malfoy. Most of the members were known pure-bloods, using their status in order to assert their dominance as wizards. At least Crabbe and Gregory's fathers were known Death Eaters as well. 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 terrorise the other students of different houses at Hogwarts, especially the younger students. Draco and his gang frequently antagonised 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**: "*Oh, this is Crabbe and this is Goyle, and my name's Malfoy, Draco Malfoy. [...] You'll soon find out some wizarding families are much better than others, Potter. You don't want to go making friends with the wrong sort. I can help you there.*"
**Harry Potter**: "*I think I can tell who the wrong sort are for myself, thanks.*"
**Draco Malfoy**: "*I'd be careful if I were you, Potter. Unless you're a bit politer you'll go the same way as your parents. They didn't know what was good for them, either. You hang around with riffraff like the Weasleys and that Hagrid, and it'll rub off on you.*"
— Draco introducing himself to Harry Potter on the Hogwarts Express in 1991.[src]

**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 antagonised **Harry Potter**. 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

**Lucius Malfoy**: "*I hope my son will amount to more than a thief or a plunderer, Borgin. Though if his grades don't pick up, that may indeed be all he is fit for -* "
**Draco Malfoy**: "*It's not my fault. The teachers all have favourites, that Hermione Granger -* "
**Lucius Malfoy**: "*I would have thought you'd be ashamed that a girl of no wizard family beat you in every exam.*"
— Draco and his father talking in Borgin and Burke's in 1992.[src]

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. 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

> "*An unworthy trick! A low and cowardly attempt to sabotage the Gryffindor Seeker! Detention for all of you, and fifty points from Slytherin! I shall be speaking to Professor Dumbledore about this, make no mistake!*"
> ― Minerva McGonagall punishing Malfoy's gang for their behaviour at a Quidditch match[source]
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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 criticised Rubeus Hagrid, who had been teaching the class. Later on in the school year, Draco was slapped hard by Hermione for cruelling laughing at a distressed Hagrid, which shocked Malfoy and his gang, leaving Crabbe and Goyle utterly dumbfounded.

### 1994–1995 school year

> "*Jets of light shot from both wands, hit each other in midair, and ricocheted off at angles — Harry’s hit Goyle in the face, and Malfoy’s hit Hermione. Goyle bellowed and put his hands to his nose, where great ugly boils were springing up — Hermione, whimpering in panic, was clutching her mouth.*"
> ― Malfoy and Harry firing spells at each other[source]
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Before the start of the school year, Draco, Crabbe and Goyle antagonised 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"s badges. In the dungeons before the start of a Potions lesson, Malfoy and his friends antagonised 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

> "*If anything more was needed to complete Harry’s happiness, it was Malfoy, Crabbe, and Goyle’s reactions. He saw them with their heads together later that afternoon in the library, together with a weedy looking boy Hermione whispered was called Theodore Nott. They looked around at Harry as he browsed the shelves for the book he needed on Partial Vanishment, and Goyle cracked his knuckles threateningly and Malfoy whispered something undoubtedly malevolent to Crabbe. Harry knew perfectly well why they were acting like this: He had named all of their fathers as Death Eaters.*"
> ― The gang's hostility torwards Harry Potter in the Hogwarts Library[source]
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In 1995, at the beginning of the school year, Pansy Parkinson and Draco Malfoy become Slytherin Prefects. Vincent Crabbe and Gregory Goyle join 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

**Hermione Granger**: "*But what’s all this about him going up there with a variety of students’? How many people are in on it? You wouldn’t think he’d trust lots of them to know what he’s doing—*"
**Harry Potter**: "*Yeah, that is weird. I heard him telling Crabbe it wasn’t Crabbe’s business what he was doing.... so what’s he telling all these... all these... God, I’ve been stupid. It’s obvious, isn’t it? There was a great vat of it down in the dungeon...He could’ve nicked some any time during that lesson...*"
**Ron Weasley**: "*Nicked what?*"
**Harry Potter**: "*Polyjuice Potion. He stole some of the Polyjuice Potion Slughorn showed us in our first Potions lesson... There aren’t a whole variety of students standing guard for Malfoy... it’s just Crabbe and Goyle as usual...Yeah, it all fits!*"
— The trio discussing the activities of Malfoy's gang in the Gryffindor Common Room[src]

In 1996, Harry Potter spied on Malfoy's gang on the Hogwarts Express using his invisibility cloak to see if Malfoy was a Death Eater as he suspected. It is also revealed that Pansy Parkinson has feelings for Malfoy, as his head was in her lap and she was stroking his hair. Though it is unknown if he reciprocates, it is likely because of the fact that he didn't pull away when she stroked his head. 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

**Draco Malfoy**: "*STOP! The Dark Lord wants him alive –*"
**Vincent Crabbe**: "*So? I’m not killing him, am I?, but if I can, I will, the Dark Lord wants him dead anyway, what’s the diff—? It’s that Mudblood! Avada Kedavra!*"
**Draco Malfoy**: "*Don’t kill him! DON’T KILL HIM!*"
— Malfoy arguing with Crabbe and Goyle during the Skirmish at the Room of Requirement[src]

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 favour with Lord Voldemort, he was put to ill use by the Dark Lord, forced to torture others who had earned Voldemort's disfavour 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 and Gregory Goyle. The group attempted to ambush Harry Potter in the Room of Requirement. Crabbe died when he could not control the Fiendfyre he conjured, while Draco pulled an unconscious Goyle to safety 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's testimony about his innocence in Albus Dumbledore's death and because of his mother, Narcissa Malfoy's actions in lying to the Dark Lord about Potter's death.

### 2017

Nineteen years after the end of the war, Draco Malfoy had married Astoria Greengrass, and was seen escorting his son, Scorpius Malfoy, onto the Hogwarts Express as the boy left for his first year at school. By then, Draco and Harry had set aside their animosity towards each other. It is unknown if Draco and/or Astoria still spoke with the rest of the gang. But it is unlikely that they did, seeing as Draco turned against the Death Eaters completely.

## Attitude toward Harry Potter

Harry Potter was in the same year as most of Draco Malfoy's gang. Harry, being a Gryffindor, was despised by the gang of Slytherins and was the target of much of their taunts and bullying. Draco Malfoy's gang often bullied Harry Potter near upcoming Quidditch games in an attempt to make him nervous. As the years went by, however, Harry became used to the teasing and often made amusing comebacks. This seemed to change around their sixth year, as Draco's mission made him more stressed out, and he lost focus on his usual bullying and abuse of power. By the next year, Draco finally came to a better relationship with Harry, though far from a true friendship. Crabbe, on the other hand, had turned from bully to outright murderer, as he attempted to murder Harry and his friends with dark magic.

## Members

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### Possible members

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