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Add to the background some earlier female Malfoy fan works (2000s fan fiction, PTT 2020, Korean web novel) |
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Stories in which Draco Malfoy is female, either born a girl or turned into one by magic, appeared in ''Harry Potter'' fan fiction from the early 2000s, and in 2013 fans set up a [[FanFiction.Net]] community for gender-swapped ''Harry Potter'' stories.<ref name="TuoiTre" /><ref name="ToyPeople" /> In January 2018, [[Twitter]] and [[DeviantArt]] user Jean "TheMightFenek" Hayashi posted a comic of Draco Malfoy [[Gender swap|gender-swapped]], as a girl instead of a boy, Dracia Malfoy,<ref group="‡">{{Cite tweet|author=Jean "TheMightFenek" Hayashi|user=jean_hayashi|number=952655512838995968|title=#dracomalfoy #HarryPotter #genderswap #rule63 A comic that I did some time ago, rule 63 Draco is cute, I call her Dracia. The best part is when the effects of the magic wore off. *alternate universe, on the last year, featured characters are not underage and all that talk|access-date=16 October 2026}}</ref><ref group="‡">{{cite web|author=Jean "TheMightFenek" Hayashi|date=February 7, 2018|title=Genderbend Draco Malfoy|url=https://www.deviantart.com/themightfenek/art/Genderbend-Draco-Malfoy-729606857|access-date=October 14, 2026|website=[[DeviantArt]]}}</ref> and likened to the ''[[tsundere]]'' anime trope in being [[Shipping (fandom)|shipped]] with [[Harry Potter (character)|Harry Potter]], in a variation of the [[Drarry]] ship.{{citation needed|date=October 2026}} In Taiwan, users of the C_Chat board on [[PTT Bulletin Board System|PTT]] began a collaborative project around a female Draco in June 2020, writing stories and drawing scenes that followed the plots of the seven books.<ref name="UDN">{{Cite news |author=希洛 |date=2026-10-05 |title=跩哥變跩姊！「性轉馬份」歐美社群爆紅 台網友6年前就領先世界？ |trans-title=Draco becomes a girl: "gender-swapped Malfoy" goes viral in the West, but were Taiwanese netizens six years ahead? |url=https://game.udn.com/game/story/122089/9795133 |access-date=2026-10-23 |work=udn遊戲角落 |publisher=聯合新聞網 |language=zh-tw}}</ref><ref name="TuoiTre" /> In South Korea, an amateur web novel with a female Draco, {{lang|ko|악역영애 말포이}} (lit. "Villainess Malfoy"), was published free of charge in 110 instalments and completed about five years before the 2026 trend.<ref name="Wolyo">{{Cite news |author=이원용 |date=2026-10-06 |title='여자 말포이'가 뭐길래…일본·서양 홀린 한국 아마추어 웹소설 |trans-title=What is 'female Malfoy'? The Korean amateur web novel that captivated Japan and the West |url=https://www.wolyo.co.kr/news/articleView.html?idxno=318726 |access-date=2026-10-23 |work=월요신문 |language=ko}}</ref><ref name="UDN" /> Drawings posted on X in March 2024 by the artist Grizz (@grizz056), built around the idea "if Malfoy was a girl", are commonly cited as the starting point of the 2026 trend.<ref name="UDN" /><ref name="TuoiTre" /> | Stories in which Draco Malfoy is female, either born a girl or turned into one by magic, appeared in ''Harry Potter'' fan fiction from the early 2000s, and in 2013 fans set up a [[FanFiction.Net]] community for gender-swapped ''Harry Potter'' stories.<ref name="TuoiTre" /><ref name="ToyPeople" /> In January 2018, [[Twitter]] and [[DeviantArt]] user Jean "TheMightFenek" Hayashi posted a comic of Draco Malfoy [[Gender swap|gender-swapped]], as a girl instead of a boy, Dracia Malfoy,<ref group="‡">{{Cite tweet|author=Jean "TheMightFenek" Hayashi|user=jean_hayashi|number=952655512838995968|title=#dracomalfoy #HarryPotter #genderswap #rule63 A comic that I did some time ago, rule 63 Draco is cute, I call her Dracia. The best part is when the effects of the magic wore off. *alternate universe, on the last year, featured characters are not underage and all that talk|access-date=16 October 2026}}</ref><ref group="‡">{{cite web|author=Jean "TheMightFenek" Hayashi|date=February 7, 2018|title=Genderbend Draco Malfoy|url=https://www.deviantart.com/themightfenek/art/Genderbend-Draco-Malfoy-729606857|access-date=October 14, 2026|website=[[DeviantArt]]}}</ref> and likened to the ''[[tsundere]]'' anime trope in being [[Shipping (fandom)|shipped]] with [[Harry Potter (character)|Harry Potter]], in a variation of the [[Drarry]] ship.{{citation needed|date=October 2026}} In Taiwan, users of the C_Chat board on [[PTT Bulletin Board System|PTT]] began a collaborative project around a female Draco in June 2020, writing stories and drawing scenes that followed the plots of the seven books.<ref name="UDN">{{Cite news |author=希洛 |date=2026-10-05 |title=跩哥變跩姊！「性轉馬份」歐美社群爆紅 台網友6年前就領先世界？ |trans-title=Draco becomes a girl: "gender-swapped Malfoy" goes viral in the West, but were Taiwanese netizens six years ahead? |url=https://game.udn.com/game/story/122089/9795133 |access-date=2026-10-23 |work=udn遊戲角落 |publisher=聯合新聞網 |language=zh-tw}}</ref><ref name="TuoiTre" /> In South Korea, an amateur web novel with a female Draco, {{lang|ko|악역영애 말포이}} (lit. "Villainess Malfoy"), was published free of charge in 110 instalments and completed about five years before the 2026 trend.<ref name="Wolyo">{{Cite news |author=이원용 |date=2026-10-06 |title='여자 말포이'가 뭐길래…일본·서양 홀린 한국 아마추어 웹소설 |trans-title=What is 'female Malfoy'? The Korean amateur web novel that captivated Japan and the West |url=https://www.wolyo.co.kr/news/articleView.html?idxno=318726 |access-date=2026-10-23 |work=월요신문 |language=ko}}</ref><ref name="UDN" /> Drawings posted on X in March 2024 by the artist Grizz (@grizz056), built around the idea "if Malfoy was a girl", are commonly cited as the starting point of the 2026 trend.<ref name="UDN" /><ref name="TuoiTre" /> | ||
The concept went viral in September 2026 following a | The concept went viral in September 2026 following a post of Galfoy on [[Twitter|X]] by RedTeneri,<ref name="TuoiTre" /> which was followed by hundreds of thousands{{citation needed|date=October 2026}} of pieces of [[fan-art]], [[fan-fiction]], ''Harry Potter'' rewrites, [[fan film]]s, and [[dating sim]] [[video games]] being produced about the character and ship, both from human-made and [[artificial intelligence]]-produced sources.<ref name="ElFinanciero" /><ref name="Azteca">{{Cite web |last=Zayas |first=Luis Miguel |date=2026-10-20 |title=Malfoy Girl: la versión femenina de Draco Malfoy que se volvió viral |trans-title=Malfoy Girl: the female version of Draco Malfoy that went viral |url=https://www.aztecapuebla.com/tendencia/malfoy-girl-la-version-femenina-de-draco-malfoy-que-se-volvio-viral/ |access-date=2026-10-23 |website=Azteca Puebla |language=es}}</ref><ref name="CreativeBloq">{{Cite web |last=Dean |first=Ian |date=2026-10-21 |title=The AI Harry Potter romance that turned Draco Malfoy into a girl |url=https://www.creativebloq.com/news/someone-turned-draco-malfoy-into-a-girl-with-ai-and-now-i-need-to-know-what-happens-next |access-date=2026-10-23 |website=Creative Bloq |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|last=Walsh|first=Marcus|date=2026-10-06|title=Why Harry Potter's viral "Malfoid" trend triggered a toxic online feud|url=https://cybernews.com/entertainment/harry-potter-malfoid-backlash-anime|access-date=2026-10-21|website=Cybernews|language=en-US}}</ref> On 22 September, REDTEN (@redteneri) posted an anime-style drawing of a female Draco taunting Harry about being one of the best students in the school; it received more than 89,000 likes in its first week and prompted other artists to draw their own versions.<ref name="ElFinanciero" /><ref name="Azteca" /> On 27 September, @spaz141 posted a drawing of the character and [[Hermione Granger]] competing for Harry's attention, which received more than 44,000 likes in three days.<ref name="ToyPeople" /><ref name="Azteca" /> The drawings spread from X to [[Reddit]] and other ''Harry Potter'' fan communities within days.<ref name="TuoiTre" /><ref name="Indiatimes" /> Among the fan works were comics, fan fiction and animations, some made with [[generative AI]] tools, including re-creations of scenes from the films with Harry and the female Draco as a couple;<ref name="ElFinanciero" /><ref name="Azteca" /> a fan-made [[visual novel]], ''Malfoid Dating Sim: Pureblood & Prejudice'';<ref name="Azteca" /> and the AI-animated series ''In Another Universe'' by the creator Foyege, which retells the story around Harry and a female Draco named Draconia.<ref name="CreativeBloq" /> In October, an English-language post on X pointing to the Korean web novel was viewed more than 12 million times.<ref name="Wolyo" /> | ||
The manga artists [[Teasing Master Takagi-san|Soichiro Yamamoto]], [[Bkub Okawa]], and [[Food Wars!|Shun Saeki]] were noted for drawing [[fan-art]] of Galfoy and helping to coin the "Galfoy" name.<ref group="‡">{{Cite tweet|author-link=Teasing Master Takagi-san|author=Soichiro Yamamoto|user=udon0531|number=2106010270112108952|title=Girl Malfoy (Stage Name)|access-date=16 October 2026}}</ref><ref name="RealSound">{{Cite web|date=October 2, 2026|title=「父上ー」大川ぶくぶが描く女体化マルフォイに反響 ハーマイオニーに殴られる姿も|url=https://realsound.jp/book/2026/10/post-2541666.html|access-date=October 22, 2026|website=[[Real Sound (website)|Real Sound]]|language=ja}}</ref><ref group="‡">{{Cite tweet|author-link=Food Wars!|author=Shun Saeki|user=Syunsaeki|number=2106551846433349647|title=Gal Foy|access-date=16 October 2026}}</ref> A Galfoy-centric ''Harry Potter'' rewrite, ''Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Tsundere'' by GuardBro, was removed from [[Royal Road (website)|Royal Road]] following a copyright claim.<ref>{{Cite web|title=What is Malfoid anime? Artist Yunayu deletes and reposts female Draco art, causes controversy amid furious fans backlash|url=https://www.indiatimes.com/trending/what-is-malfoid-anime-artist-yunayu-deletes-and-reposts-female-draco-art-causes-controversy-amid-furious-fans-backlash/articleshow/134917441.html|access-date=2026-10-21|website=Indiatimes|language=en}}</ref>{{failed verification|date=October 2026}} | The manga artists [[Teasing Master Takagi-san|Soichiro Yamamoto]], [[Bkub Okawa]], and [[Food Wars!|Shun Saeki]] were noted for drawing [[fan-art]] of Galfoy and helping to coin the "Galfoy" name.<ref group="‡">{{Cite tweet|author-link=Teasing Master Takagi-san|author=Soichiro Yamamoto|user=udon0531|number=2106010270112108952|title=Girl Malfoy (Stage Name)|access-date=16 October 2026}}</ref><ref name="RealSound">{{Cite web|date=October 2, 2026|title=「父上ー」大川ぶくぶが描く女体化マルフォイに反響 ハーマイオニーに殴られる姿も|url=https://realsound.jp/book/2026/10/post-2541666.html|access-date=October 22, 2026|website=[[Real Sound (website)|Real Sound]]|language=ja}}</ref><ref group="‡">{{Cite tweet|author-link=Food Wars!|author=Shun Saeki|user=Syunsaeki|number=2106551846433349647|title=Gal Foy|access-date=16 October 2026}}</ref>{{citation needed|date=October 2026}} A Galfoy-centric ''Harry Potter'' rewrite, ''Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Tsundere'' by GuardBro, was removed from [[Royal Road (website)|Royal Road]] following a copyright claim.<ref name="Indiatimes">{{Cite web|last=Banik|first=Sinthya|title=What is Malfoid anime? Artist Yunayu deletes and reposts female Draco art, causes controversy amid furious fans backlash|url=https://www.indiatimes.com/trending/what-is-malfoid-anime-artist-yunayu-deletes-and-reposts-female-draco-art-causes-controversy-amid-furious-fans-backlash/articleshow/134917441.html|access-date=2026-10-21|website=Indiatimes|language=en}}</ref>{{failed verification|date=October 2026}} | ||
==See also== | ==See also== | ||