While Severus Snape gets the main redemption arc narrative in Harry Potter, many fans feel that Draco Malfoy was a much better candidate for this. There are many valid arguments for this because Draco is very young and also a victim in some ways, and he ends up coming around to being less horrible with time.
However, while Draco makes for an interesting and sympathetic villain, the fact is that he did make some pretty big mistakes. He was a bully who made some hurtful decisions, and there are the choices he made that had the biggest impacts.
10 Following Harry and Hermione when they were removing Norbert
Draco and Harry both take turns on and off throughout the series trying to follow one another and get one another in trouble. One instance of Draco trying to frame Harry is when Harry and Hermione have to take Norbert to the Astronomy Tower to be taken away by Bill Weasley.
While Draco does succeed in getting them caught, he also ends up in detention in the Forbidden Forest.
9 Bullying other students
While some of Draco’s mistakes on this list lead to more far-reaching changes to the plot of the hate story, there are also things Draco does that impact others on a smaller but still important level. Draco and his friends are major bullies.
They spend most of their time harassing anyone who isn’t a Slytherin and especially those who aren’t purebloods. Whether it’s Hermione for being a Muggle-born or Ron for being poor, Draco is a bully who treats others horribly, and this kind of behavior does impact others.
8 Feeding information to Rita Skeeter
In many ways, Draco is deeply insecure, and he’s always looking to get others in trouble, especially Harry, by ratting them out. He’s rather pathetic in this way, and he seems to delight in making others miserable. When Draco feeds information to Rita Skeeter about people like Hagrid and Harry, he ends up really impacting their lives.
This is especially true for Hagrid because the information about his giantess mother leads to him being harassed and threatened.
7 Trying to kill Dumbledore
This point is one that is a bit complex because in some ways Draco didn’t have much of a choice. He knew that Voldemort would kill him if he didn't kill Dumbledore, so he tried to carry out his mission. However, at least at first, he didn’t seem to have any moral issues with killing Dumbledore but was mostly just scared because he knew this was an impossible task.
The lack of morality that Draco had and the fact that he was even rather proud at the beginning of being given this task is pretty repugnant. But, he does start to see the way he’s being used.
6 Not helping at the Battle of Hogwarts
Draco does make some better decisions during the Battle of Hogwarts than he might have in previous years by no longer caring to really help or support Voldemort.
However, at the end of the day, he’s still rather selfish. He doesn’t try to help defeat Voldemort, but he mostly just wants to keep himself safe and stays somewhat neutral.
5 Becoming a Death Eater
Because Draco’s parents are already Death Eaters and offer their manor to Voldemort and his followers, there’s no real way Draco as a child and young teen could have escaped from this. So, becoming a Death Eater wasn’t completely his choice, and he never had a chance to make up his own mind.
However, the fact that he seems proud of this and that he doesn’t see the disgusting bigoted views for what they are is still a big mistake that impacts his own life and others around him.
4 Calling Hermione a Mudblood
Draco definitely parrots the beliefs of his parents, and while he’s a victim in many ways, there are other characters, like Sirius Black, who grew up with vile parents and didn’t believe what they said. So, overall, his level of complicity is complicated. However, when he calls Hermione a mudblood, which is considered a gross slur, he’s totally in the wrong.
This mistake makes him seem gross and cruel, and it also solidifies the hatred that Harry, Ron, and Hermione have for Malfoy. It’s these small decisions Malfoy continually makes that lead him down a road to darkness at least for a while.
3 Joining the Inquisitorial Squad
While most of the students at Hogwarts despise Dolores Umbridge and see her for the cruel monster she is, Draco and some of his friends actually like her. They see joining her Inquisitorial Squad as an opportunity to wield power over others and be even worse bullies.
This is another mistake Draco makes that shows how messed up he is and that makes his fellow students despise him.
2 Faking how badly Buckbeak hurt him
It’s Draco’s own fault in the first place that Buckbeak hurts his arm as he ignores the instructions Hagrid gives the class. However, he also exaggerates the injury in order to get Hagrid in trouble and attempt to get him fired.
The way he acts over this nearly gets Hagrid fired and also nearly leads to Buckbeak being unfairly executed. Overall, it’s a horrible decision and one of Malfoy’s worst moments.
1 Not trying to distance himself from Death Eater ideology
While touched on briefly earlier in this article, one of the biggest mistakes Malfoy makes is to buy into the ideology that his parents teach him.
He likes being cruel to others and to abuse any power he can have. He tattles on others, harasses them, and wants to see them punished. He has no issues with the bigotry of Death Eaters and Voldemort’s way of thinking, and he doesn’t care if others are tortured or even murdered.
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