PERSONALITY

History

Nicholas Malfoy was born to Abraxas Malfoy and Violetta Malfoy, a very wealthy and kind family. His mother passed away shortly after Nicholas was born sadly leaving the two boys to be raised by their father. 

His older brother, Lucius, was three years older than him, but Nicholas looked up to him a great deal. He grew up in his family's mansion in Wiltshire. Given the family's long line of pureblooded wizards, they were a very wealthy family, the mansion having been with the Malfoys for generations. Of course, being the younger brother, he wasn't going to get the mansion when it came time – that always went to the eldest brother. However, it wasn't like that part really mattered to Nicholas – after all, they already had plans for his own place given they had what felt like limitless money. Especially for the spoiled younger boy.

At the age of 4, one whole year faster than his older brother had, he began to show signs of magic which delighted his father immensely. Nicholas was always praised for just about everything he did – but that also made him want to very much make his father happy. He devoted his life to making his father proud. The first sign of this intense desire to make his father proud was when he was 7 years old and he received his first broom. Almost every day, one could see Nicholas outside of the mansion practicing on his broom trying to get better.

It was also around this age, 7 years old, that Nicholas started realizing he had a lot of issues with reading – it was really hard to focus on the letters, instead focusing on the white spaces instead of the black letters, which made things a lot harder for the boy. Many nights Nicholas would sneak out to try to get better at the whole reading thing on his own, but he never was the best reader despite his many efforts. Just as every Malfoy was expected, he learned as much as he could before he was to go to Hogwarts, so he could be as far ahead of everyone as he could and impress those around him. Especially since his older brother was already making waves. He loved hearing about Lucius's time at school and couldn't wait to go himself. Of course, just because he looked up to him didn't mean that he didn't mess with his older brother when he could.

At the age of 10, Nick got himself a hamster as a pet. It was a good little creature meant to teach him responsibility and how to take care of something. Of course, he used magic when he could, but he was an untrained wizard without a wand at the time, and so he did a lot by hand. He spoiled that little hamster, Ace. Ace was an albino hamster which gave him white fur and red eyes. Nick treasured the little creature more than just about anything.

At the age of 11, Nick received his Hogwarts letter and that made his father proud – but he was the second to go to Hogwarts and so he felt he had to try even harder to be better than Lucius – otherwise he was just second to Lucius and overshadowed – at least that's how he felt. Of course, as soon as the hat hit his head, he was sorted into Slytherin. He was chanting Slytherin over and over, whispering as the hat was lowered onto his head, so that could have played a small part in the sorting. It was during that year his father was accused of having something to do with the muggle-born minister at the time, but Nick was young and didn't really pay attention to it. His dad never got arrested or in much trouble anyways so it was fine.

Last year, Ace died sadly, and Nick was super upset about it and cried for weeks.  Even now he mourns the loss of poor little Ace.  It wasn't his fault at all that Ace ended up dying, it was just his time. Probably didn't help he was albino.

Finally, this year (Year 4) was the first year he made it onto his Quidditch team, the previous Seeker have graduated and opening up the spot. In years past he had been on the reserve team or ended up practicing with them anyways, even if he wasn't officially on it (especially his first year as first years never ended up on the team anyways). While the other positions were fun, the Seeker was the one that got the glory – and he hoped that in quidditch he could finally find himself doing something better than his older brother.