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'''Galfoy''',<ref>{{cite web|author=W. Amirul Adlan|date=October 5, 2026|title="Galfoy" Trend Sees Everyone Drawing Draco Malfoy As A Chick|url=https://slimepress.com/posts/galfoy-trend-sees-everyone-drawing-draco-malfoy-as-a-chick|access-date=October 16, 2026|website=SlimePress|quote=''Harry Potter'' is back, but not in the way you expect – because now everyone's [[Gender swap|drawing Draco Malfoy as a girl]]. Dubbed "Galfoy" or "Malfoid" if women cover their drinks around you, this trend has been seeing fans reinterpret the ''Harry Potter'' series through an important lens: what if instead of a bratty rich boy, his rival and bully was a bratty rich chick. | '''Galfoy''',<ref>{{cite web|author=W. Amirul Adlan|date=October 5, 2026|title="Galfoy" Trend Sees Everyone Drawing Draco Malfoy As A Chick|url=https://slimepress.com/posts/galfoy-trend-sees-everyone-drawing-draco-malfoy-as-a-chick|access-date=October 16, 2026|website=SlimePress|quote=''Harry Potter'' is back, but not in the way you expect – because now everyone's [[Gender swap|drawing Draco Malfoy as a girl]]. Dubbed "Galfoy" or "Malfoid" if women cover their drinks around you, this trend has been seeing fans reinterpret the ''Harry Potter'' series through an important lens: what if instead of a bratty rich boy, his rival and bully was a bratty rich chick. It should be noted that this is a very funny trend to happen to '' [[Harry Potter]]'' specifically, whose author [[JK Rowling]] has a loud distaste for people not staying the same gender they were originally introduced as.}}</ref> also known as '''Dracia Malfoy''', '''Draconia Malfoy''', or '''Malfoid''', is a [[Fan fiction|fan-made]] ''[[tsundere]]'' and [[Gender swap|gender-swapped]] version of the [[Harry Potter|''Harry Potter'' franchise]] character [[Draco Malfoy]], in which the character is a girl instead of a boy, and grows to be romantically interested in [[Harry Potter (character)|Harry Potter]].<ref>{{Cite web |last=Arroz |first=Jon Del |date=2026-10-12 |title=Malfoid Fan Art Trend Takes Over Harry Potter Fandom |url=https://www.fandompulse.com/p/malfoid-fan-art-trend-takes-over |access-date=2026-10-21 |website=www.fandompulse.com |language=en}}</ref> The character was originally created on 14 January 2018 by Jean "TheMightFenek" Hayashi, a Japanese online artist, as part of a comic commission which she posted to [[Twitter]] and [[DeviantArt]]. Galfoy subsequently became an [[Internet meme]] and rose in popularity internationally following a [[Twitter]] trend of drawing her in 2026,<ref>{{Cite web |last=Min-El |date=2026-10-05 |title=Gender-Swapped Draco Malfoy Sparks New Harry Potter Fan-Art Craze: From 20-Year-Old Fanfiction to a “Tsundere Heiress” Renaissance |url=https://www.toy-people.com/en/?p=115147 |access-date=2026-10-22 |website=TOY PEOPLE |language=en-US}}</ref> with related hashtags in English and Japanese trending on Twitter; several professional Japanese artists contributed their own renditions of the character on the website, referring to the character as Galfoy, derived from '[[Girl]] Malfoy' or Gal-foy.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2026-10-05 |title=Malfoid Fan Art Trend Turns Draco Malfoy Into a Bratty Anime Girl With an Incel-Linked Name |url=https://www.inkl.com/news/malfoid-fan-art-trend-turns-draco-malfoy-into-a-bratty-anime-girl-with-an-incel-linked-name |access-date=2026-10-21 |website=inkl |language=en}}</ref> | ||
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