This CRAZY “Harry Potter” Fan Theory Proves Draco Malfoy Was a Good Guy All Along

One of the most interesting characters in the Harry Potter fandom is, without a doubt, Draco Malfoy. Even though he tried to ruin Harry Potter’s life at every turn and strived to be the best Deatheater he could be to impress his father, he was never really all that great at being evil. And now, one Potterhead’s theory might change the way you look at Draco Malfoy forever.

Remember in Chamber of Secrets when an entity no one knew was terrorizing the school and petrifying its students? Well, Harry and Ron only figured out it was a basilisk when they found the torn piece of paper in Hermione’s petrified hand. Everyone assumed that Hermione was the one who figured it out, but a Tumblr user named Indie-band theorizes that Draco might have had a helping hand in the discovery!

The theory stems from a small moment in the movie that didn’t happen in the book: When Harry, Hermione, and the Weasleys went to Flourish and Blotts to buy their textbooks and ran into the Malfoys, Draco can be spotted glancing around the shop to see if anyone is looking before ripping a page out of a book.

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“Why would Malfoy rip a page out of a random book?” the poster asks. “If he wanted the book, he could have just bought the book himself. He’s not poor, his family doesn’t discourage learning. He chooses to rip a particular page with a pointed glance out of a book. Why?”

The poster theorizes that Draco was curious about basilisks because his dad, Lucious, had been talking about it at home. “[Lucious was] the one who was apparently talking freely of the dangers that would face the Muggle-borns [that] year,” they wrote. “I think Draco knew more about what was going on, or at least figured more out, than he let on to his friends.”

Indie-band thinks that when Malfoy realized the havoc the basilisk was wreaking on Hogwarts and its students, he got worried and had to help in the only way he could — by somehow slipping Hermione the ripped piece of paper on basilisks. After all, Indie-band asks, “Why would Hermione, with her love and care for books almost on par with the librarian, rip a page out of a book she could have just checked out? My guess is she didn’t find it in the library.”

Even though Draco’s ripping the page didn’t happen in the book, and Hermione did seem to make the connection to the basilisk herself, the theory still resonates as Draco’s action seems like a deliberate addition to the movie. Draco’s always punked out on being evil in the end anyway. He couldn’t kill Dumbledore even though Voldemort threatened him with death if he didn’t, and he didn’t reveal Harry’s identity to Lucious when he was being held captive at the Malfoys’.

There’s also the fact that J.K. Rowling was known to share secrets about the book with the movie producers (like telling Alan Rickman about Snape’s love for Lily Potter ). *sob* So it’s not hard to imagine Rowling hinting that Draco slipped Hermione the page.

Either way, this theory goes down as one of the more believable ones. Or maybe we just want to believe Draco was a good person deep down who was just corrupted by his evil father.

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