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Draco Malfoy the Werewolf (Or: Why Draco is not a DeathEater and actually fears the moon more than Moody)

This beautiful bit of work is from the site (aptly named) dracomalfoyisawerewolf.com. Read on: There are a lot of Harry Potter theories that have existed in the series’ fandom, such as Snape being a vampire or Sirius and Remus being secret lovers. Many of these theories have been contradicted by the books themselves, and others seem to have little evidence supporting them in canon.

One such theory, however, bears notice. Draco Malfoy is an annoying antagonist throughout all seven Harry Potter books, but noticeably less so in the sixth and seventh. Presumably, he stops his sophomoric pranks as a consequence of his highly stressful year-long assignment to play a key role in the assassination of Albus Dumbledore.

However, there may be an even more powerful reason for the trajectory of Draco’s character development in these latter books. This is that between the fifth and sixth books, directly after Lucius Malfoy has failed to retrieve the prophecy, Voldemort allows Fenrir Greyback to bite his son, Draco.

We’ve gone back through the 6th and 7th books, and compiled some of the most convincing evidence below:

Draco is not a Death Eater At the beginning of the 6th book when Harry is hiding in Borgin and Burkes, Draco threatens Borgin, and shows him something on his arm. Harry thinks the thing on Draco’s arm is a Dark Mark, but we never see this. Harry always immediately assumes things and they turn out to be false. If Harry wakes up in the middle of the night months later it is usually right, or if he talks about it with Hermione and Hermione gets it, then it’s right. Hermione doesn’t think Draco is a Death Eater, so he probably isn’t. Another reason Draco probably doesn’t have a Dark Mark is that at the end of the sixth book there is a barrier to the Astronomy Tower that you can only pass through if you have a Dark Mark. This barrier goes up immediately after Draco goes up to the tower, and comes down just before he goes down. Additionally, Draco is never treated as a Death Eater (and there is no reason for Voldemort to give Draco a Dark Mark). So what is he? One ongoing arc in the 6th book is that Draco is sickly and stressed out. This is supposedly because of his quest, but Rowling does this misdirection a lot. Fenrir Greyback is introduced as a character who specifically punishes people who’ve messed up by biting their children. Remus Lupin is explicitly mentioned as an example of this. Why set this up if not to use it later? Relatedly, Lucius’s demonstrated punishments do not seem severe enough for his transgressions at the end of the 5th book, by the standards we are supposed to expect from Voldemort by this point in the series. It is also important to keep in mind that Lucius also mishandled Riddle’s Diary, resulting in the destruction of one seventh of Voldemort’s soul. It is likely that Lucius’s additional punishment was unspeakably terrible. Voldemort says, “Maybe you can babysit the cubs,” to Draco when the Death Eaters find out that Remus and Tonks are having a baby. This is a throwaway if he is not a werewolf. For us, the nail in the coffin is that, while showing Borgin the mark on his arm, Draco says that Fenrir Greyback is a close personal friend and he’d hate for him to have a to pay a visit. And if the thing on Draco’s arm in Borgin & Burkes’ was not a Dark Mark (which it’s not), what else could he have possibly shown Borgin to make him so frightened? Finally, Rowling has said in an interview that one scene in the third movie, there was a moment that foreshadowed something she knew was coming that gave her chills. In that movie, Draco impersonates a werewolf and does a wolf howl. This also works for the arc for the flipping of the Malfoy family, who take care of themselves instead of following Voldemort. It makes more sense for them to throw away decades of servitude if one of them has been turned into a half-blood, making them idealogically incompatible with Voldemort’s pure-blood regime. So why hide it? There is precedent for J.K. Rowling revealing only the tip of the iceberg in some of her characterizations. For example, Rowling was originally going to write a whole arc about Dean Thomas’s family, but instead she focused on Neville. Additionally, Dumbledore’s love of Grindelwald is never addressed during any of the books, and was only revealed by J.K. Rowling during a Q&A after all the books had been published. There are likely many other elements of the story that have been left behind the scenes for one reason or another. It may be entirely possible that Draco’s reveal was planned for the seventh book, for example, but got cut for pages. Rowling has new content being released by book, and could be saving this to reveal on Pottermore for the seventh book. One reason this would be really cool: It makes Draco’s relationship with Snape even more interesting if Draco is relying on him for Wolfsbane potion.

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I always laugh when somebody declares James Potter on the verge of expulsion for his pranks in fic because Malfoy was literally a Death Eater trying to kill the Headmaster and Dumbledore was like “Let’s just see if we can gently guide him away from this” I’m pretty sure the only thing that gets you expelled at Hogwarts is if you have already straight up murdered someone

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How long does an owl live?

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In Order of the Phoenix, when Molly Weasley tries to defeat a boggart, it transforms into each of her family members in turn, including the twins. But they appear together, because not even in her worst nightmares did she imagine Fred and George being separated.

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I JUST HAD A HORRIBLE THOUGHT.

So people can’t see thestrals unless they’ve seen someone die, correct?

Well, what if one summer Remus accidentally got loose during the full moon but Remus thought it was alright and he didn’t hurt anyone because they had been in the middle of a forest area.

And then he goes back to Hogwarts and the first thing he asks is why they’ve started using horses to pull the carriages.

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I was on the bus thinking about Harry Potter tonight and I remembered the part where the Dementors all show up at the Quidditch game, and I remembered how they were all looking up at Harry, and I wondered why they would all be staring at him, and then I realized that it’s because he has two souls in him.

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There’s no draws in tennis, but if there was I would’ve been very happy to share it with Rafa.

Roger Federer (via deedeethegirl)

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You’re struggling, and you’re allowed to, because the universe is huge and it’s arbitrary, and uncaring. One moment you can get sucked into a hell pit and the next moment you can get pulverized by a meteor, and really in the grand spectrum of things it’ll mean nothing. The point is, if nothing means anything, then the only thing that means something is what we make. I mean, look at me. I used to use hopelessness as an excuse for all the awful things that I did. Until this prissy little overachiever that I was totally planning on handling over to my mother unraveled all of my plans, because she thought we all deserved better. Even me. And yeah, you are flawed. And struggling, and uncertain, but it is so beautiful the way you try.

Carmilla (S02E22)

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Friendly reminder that Carmilla and Laura have both watched the other die.

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s o u l m a t e s

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The gun debate ended when politicians deemed the mass murder of school children of sandy hook elementary not enough to push gun control. It's disgusting

It’s something that most of us Europeans (and possibly countries I don’t know well enough) just cannot grasp. Americans care more about keeping their guns than they do about keeping schools safe. I guess those children are a sacrifice they’re willing to make to continue their own false belief of safety.

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Knowledge is knowing that Frankenstein made the monster

Wisdom is knowing that Frankenstein is the monster  

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I wish people would stop asking me where I think I’m going to be in 5 years. I don’t have 2020 vision.

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These are amazing. I can’t wait to make my own at the end of the year.. !

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Take a first look-sea at Finding Dory.