Night Parade · Halloween
Draco embraced his new life as the Malfoy heir, freed Dobby, and began changing his future by choosing Hogwarts and befriending Hermione. As he prepared for school, he also navigated his family’s pure-blood expectations and agreed to attend Pansy’s garden competition.
Draco built connections at Pansy’s competition and on the Hogwarts Express, while quietly earning Fortune Points by teaching spells and helping other students. He left the arc sorted into Gryffindor, shocking the Great Hall and joining Harry, Ron, and Hermione at the table.
After his Gryffindor Sorting provoked a crisis with the Malfoys, Draco persuaded his parents to let him return to Hogwarts as an unprotected observer. He formed an alliance with Dumbledore against Voldemort and began negotiating an uneasy friendship with Hermione, while her questions about his departure remained unanswered.
Draco earned the Gryffindors’ respect through his skill in Herbology and his help to his classmates, while Hermione struggled with her growing interest in him. After Peeves attacked the group, Draco used an unknown spell to subdue and command him, then faced questions from the professors.
After Draco stopped Peeves with an unexplained trick, the professors investigated him and punished him for unauthorized magic and deception. Draco later told Hermione that he chose Gryffindor because he wanted to become someone like her, and their growing closeness left Hermione confused and flustered.
After Draco apologized for humiliating Hermione, he offered her a favor in exchange for revealing the truth about Moaning Myrtle's death. Hermione learned that Hagrid had been framed by Tom Riddle, now Voldemort, and ended the night bound to Draco by a protection agreement she dreaded fulfilling.
Hermione and Draco grew closer as they attended Charms and Transfiguration lessons, with their wager leading them to use each other’s first names. Draco’s exceptional Transfiguration earned Gryffindor a hundred points, and Professor McGonagall planned to strengthen his foundations while postponing his tutoring until he finished his Trophy Room cleaning.
Draco’s Transfiguration talent and growing popularity brought him closer to Hermione, while McGonagall and Flitwick gave him advanced lessons and tests. Hermione admitted to her friends that she liked Draco, and Quirrell’s garlic-filled Defense Against the Dark Arts lesson ended with Draco explaining Jiangshi to the class.
Draco and Hermione grew closer as Draco gained attention for his Defence Against the Dark Arts skills and earned a chance to try out as Gryffindor’s Seeker. In Potions, Snape repeatedly targeted Draco and other Gryffindors, but Draco helped his classmates and finished his potion successfully before Goyle’s cauldron exploded.
Draco and Hermione grew closer as they befriended the Giant Squid, shared Draco’s animal-speaking ability, and began using enchanted mirrors to stay in touch. Draco made the Quidditch team as Seeker and impressed his new teammates, while promising Hermione flying lessons.
Draco taught Hermione to fly, then built a second Quidditch team that challenged Gryffindor’s veterans and won their scrimmage. As the team took on Slytherin, Draco and Hermione helped secure a decisive victory that left Gryffindor celebrating and Slytherin silent.
Draco and Hermione won the Quidditch House Cup, grew closer over Christmas at Hermione’s home, and openly revealed their feelings through the Mirror of Erised. Back at Hogwarts, the group began investigating the three-headed dog’s guarded trapdoor and learned that Nicolas Flamel was connected to the Philosopher’s Stone.
Draco and Hermione uncovered Voldemort’s plot, stopped him from using unicorn blood through Quirrell, and secretly completed the trials guarding the Philosopher’s Stone. Dumbledore rewarded them at the House Cup feast, where Gryffindor won, and the students celebrated Draco and Hermione.
Draco and Hermione’s relationship deepened as the Malfoys welcomed her, while Ron and Harry each faced major changes in their families. Draco also helped expose Pettigrew, secured Riddle’s Diary for Dumbledore, and challenged Lockhart’s reputation before the students returned to Diagon Alley.
Draco and Hermione began their second year at Hogwarts, where Lockhart’s failed lesson and the Chamber of Secrets attacks brought them into a dangerous investigation. After discovering that the Basilisk was targeting Muggle-born students, they prepared to confront it as it hunted them through the castle.
Draco, Hermione, Harry, and Hagrid ended the Basilisk curse and cleared Hagrid’s name before leaving Hogwarts for summer. Draco and Hermione toured Paris and Beauxbatons with Pheobe and Gabrielle, then returned to the Grangers’ home by Apparition.
Draco built political connections and prepared the Malfoys for a Dementor uprising while growing closer to Hermione. As they boarded the Hogwarts Express, they established a train-wide Patronus barrier and settled into a compartment with Cho Chang and Emock.
Draco and Hermione protected Hogwarts and Hogsmeade from Dementors, while helping Hagrid teach Care of Magical Creatures and learning to cast Patronuses. After Draco established a barrier around the village, armored Trolls attacked, and the students and shopkeepers joined forces to defeat them.
Draco helped turn Hogwarts against Fudge, offered Lupin a future, and joined Hermione and Professor Babbling in uncovering the ancient trials and vault tied to Ancient Magic. After Ranrok and Rookwood emerged as threats, Draco and Hermione discovered the Athenaeum, then confronted Ashwinders attacking Hogsmeade patrols.
Draco and Hermione uncovered the truth behind Jackdaw’s death and Anne’s conviction, then found the Map Chamber and learned about the Keepers’ trials. Their discoveries about Scrope’s treatment by Apollonia led Hermione to question house-elf servitude and decide to establish S.P.E.W.