50 free Draco Malfoy trivia questions with answers — literature quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
Draco Malfoy is Harry Potter's schoolboy rival, the sneering Slytherin who offers a handshake on the Hogwarts Express and spends the next six years regretting that Harry turned it down. J. K. Rowling built him from bullies she met at school, nearly called him Draco Spungen, and eventually gave him the most important accidental act in the series: disarming Dumbledore on the Astronomy Tower and becoming master of the Elder Wand without ever touching it. This quiz runs from Madam Malkin's to King's Cross. It covers the Nimbus 2001 bribe that made him Seeker, the hippogriff injury he milked, Hermione's punch, the ferret, the Inquisitorial Squad, the Vanishing Cabinet, Sectumsempra, the Malfoy Manor identification and the epilogue. It also covers Tom Felton's casting and MTV awards, the Cursed Child actors, Draco's hawthorn wand, his missing Patronus and the wizard-rock band named after him. Fifty questions, four options each, with a short explanation after every answer. Play on your phone or print it for a Harry Potter quiz night.
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Q 01Who is Draco's father?
Lucius Malfoy
His arrest after the Department of Mysteries costs the family Voldemort's favour and sets up Draco's deadly sixth-year task.
Q 02Who are Draco's two henchmen?
Vincent Crabbe and Gregory Goyle
He treats them more as underlings than friends, yet genuinely grieves when Crabbe dies in the Fiendfyre.
Q 03Who played Draco in all eight Harry Potter films?
Tom Felton
He had first auditioned for Harry and Ron, and later won MTV's Best Villain award in both 2010 and 2011.
Q 04Who was cast as Draco in the HBO television adaptation announced in 2025?
Lox Pratt
The TV series recasts the whole school-age cast from scratch.
Q 05What surname did Draco have in the earliest drafts of Philosopher's Stone?
Spungen
Rowling's pre-canon class list crossed it out for Spinks before Malfoy was added once the list was finished.
Q 06The surname Malfoy is believed to come from a French phrase meaning what?
Bad faith
Scholars also point out that Draco carries connotations of draconian, and that the mal prefix simply means bad.
Q 07Where do Harry and Draco first meet?
At Madam Malkin's robe shop
Draco does not realise who he is talking to and asks whether the orphan's parents were our kind.
Q 08Why, according to Rowling, does Draco initially try to befriend Harry?
Arriving with a famous friend would be cool
Harry refuses because Draco had already been rude about Hagrid and about Ron.
Q 09How does Draco try to get Harry expelled in the first book?
By challenging him to a midnight duel and tipping off Filch
Harry evades Filch and makes it back to his dormitory, and the scheme collapses.
Q 10Which broomsticks did Draco's father donate to get him onto the Slytherin team?
Nimbus 2001s
Hermione's jibe that Gryffindor players got in on talent rather than bribery provokes the first Mudblood insult.
Q 11Which position does Draco play for Slytherin?
Seeker
The role puts him head to head with Harry in every Gryffindor-Slytherin match.
Q 12Disguised as whom do Harry and Ron infiltrate the Slytherin common room?
Crabbe and Goyle
The Polyjuice trip proves Draco is not the Heir of Slytherin after all.
Q 13Which creature injures Draco in Hagrid's first Care of Magical Creatures lesson?
A hippogriff
He ignored the proper protocol and insulted the animal, then exaggerated the wound to get Hagrid sacked and a Quidditch match postponed.
Q 21Who makes the Unbreakable Vow to protect Draco and finish his task if he fails?
Severus Snape
Narcissa begs for the vow at Spinner's End, with Bellatrix looking on in disbelief.
Q 22Which Knockturn Alley shop does Draco visit at the start of Half-Blood Prince?
Borgin and Burkes
He threatens the shopkeeper about repairing one item and keeping another safe, while Harry watches from under the Invisibility Cloak.
Q 23What does Draco do to Harry on the Hogwarts Express in Half-Blood Prince?
Immobilises him and breaks his nose
Q 14Who punches Draco in Prisoner of Azkaban?
Hermione Granger
He had been mocking Hagrid for crying over Buckbeak's death sentence.
Q 15What do Draco's Support Cedric Diggory badges say when pressed?
Potter Stinks
He also feeds malicious and often false stories about Harry and Hagrid to Rita Skeeter.
Q 16Into which animal does the fake Mad-Eye Moody transfigure Draco?
A ferret
Moody, really Barty Crouch Jr, bounces him off the floor and drops him down Goyle's trousers for trying to curse Harry from behind.
Q 17With whom is Draco named Slytherin prefect in Order of the Phoenix?
Pansy Parkinson
The same year he joins Umbridge's Inquisitorial Squad and helps expose Dumbledore's Army.
Q 18Which Umbridge-backed group does Draco join in his fifth year?
The Inquisitorial Squad
He earns Slytherin fifty points for catching Harry as the D.A. flees the Room of Requirement.
Q 19Whose hex frees the D.A. members held captive in Umbridge's office?
Ginny Weasley's
Her famous Bat-Bogey Hex does the job after Draco has helped hold the students in the office.
Q 20What happens to Draco and his two cronies on the train home at the end of book five?
They are turned into giant slugs
A barrage of hexes from several D.A. members answers Draco's attempt at revenge for his father's arrest.
In the book Tonks rescues the stranded Harry; the film gives the job to Luna Lovegood.
Q 24Which spell does Harry use on Draco in Moaning Myrtle's bathroom?
Sectumsempra
Draco had been about to cast the Cruciatus Curse; the obscure spell from the Half-Blood Prince's book leaves him bleeding until Snape arrives.
Q 25Which two attacks does Harry suspect Draco of in his sixth year?
A cursed necklace and poisoned mead
Katie Bell handled the necklace in Hogsmeade and Ron drank the mead meant for Dumbledore; both were Draco's clumsy attempts on the headmaster.
Q 26Where does Draco disarm Dumbledore at the end of Half-Blood Prince?
The Astronomy Tower
He lowers his wand after Dumbledore calmly talks him down, and Snape delivers the Killing Curse instead.
Q 27What did Draco repair in the Room of Requirement to let Death Eaters into the castle?
A Vanishing Cabinet
Its twin sat in Borgin and Burkes, which is why he had been so anxious to keep it safe.
Q 28Why did Voldemort really give Draco the task of killing Dumbledore?
To punish Lucius with his son's death
Lucius had failed to retrieve the prophecy from the Ministry, and the assignment was a death sentence in disguise.
Q 29Which professor's murder does Draco witness at Malfoy Manor, causing him to pass out?
Charity Burbage
Voldemort kills the Muggle Studies teacher over the dining table in the opening chapter of Deathly Hallows.
Q 30Asked to identify the captured Harry at Malfoy Manor, what does Draco say?
It might be
The trio are clearly recognisable, and his evasive answer is one of the first signs of his reluctance.