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Re: Draco Malfoy || Harry Potter || Reserved || 3/?

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Personality:

In true Slytherin style, Draco is cunning and ambitious - but he doesn't always have the guts to prop up his ambitions. He's something of a coward but will try to override this with bravado and cutting remarks, putting others down verbally. He is a bully and a bigot and thinks he's superior to most people, but especially what is known as Muggles (non-magical people), Muggleborns (witches and wizards born of non-magical parents; aka Mudbloods, a derogatory term that Draco is inclined to insult with), blood traitors (witches or wizards that marry or sympathise with Muggles or Muggleborns) and Half-Breeds (such as half-human/half-giants like Hagrid).

His picking on people is usually backed up by two larger boys by the names of Vincent Crabbe and Gregory Goyle. He uses them rather like bodyguards and they are the brawn to Draco's brain. He proves himself tricky and forward-thinking when he, for example, sets Harry and his friends up for a midnight duel purely to get them into trouble as he challenges them and has no intention of meeting up with them for said duel. Instead he informs on them - and he does this numerous times throughout the school years. He is also highly competent with magic, only berated by his father for not beating Hermione in his classes.

He is a bit too blatant and obvious about his hatred of certain groups and people, even as his father has urged him to be more subtle as the family needs to put on a certain public face. In later years he does put some of this aside in order to concentrate on an important 'task' he has been set by Voldemort, who he at first wants to impress but later does so out of fear for his own life and that of his family.

He often boasts about his family and his father and other petty things, such as his flying ability even before he has any lessons - but is shamed when it's discovered that he hasn't been flying properly. So he will idly boast to make himself seem more impressive.

He tends toward smirking and snickering, always trying to get the upper hand with a taunt first and maybe a hex afterwards. He will bluntly, even gleefully say he wishes people dead but words are not actions, in his case. Much of this is petty talk - when later faced with using more brutal curses, Draco shows more of a conscience and cannot willingly torture people physically. He is also no killer, as evidenced by his half-hearted attempts on Dumbledore's life in his sixth year, despite the fact his own safety was on the line.

When faced with true danger he will be more likely to run away to save his own neck. With borderline dangers - such as an angry Hippogriff - he may play up any injuries he sustains for sympathy and will use whatever he can to his own advantage.

He shows a little more depth to his bullying persona in his later school years but when he is younger - under the protective cover of his parents and their wealth and power - he is overly arrogant and self important and will remain so for quite some time.

Any power he gains he makes full use of, such as when he's made Slytherin prefect he deducts House points whenever it takes his fancy at the smallest mistake, especially from any Gryffindors.