School life took an upturn in Draco’s fifth year. Although forbidden to discuss at Hogwarts what he had heard at home, Draco took pleasure in petty triumphs: he was a Perfect (and Harry was not) and Dolores Umbridge, the new Defence Against the Dark Arts teacher, seemed to loathe Harry quite as much as he did. He became a member of Dolores Umbridge’s Inquisitorial Squad, and made it his business to try and discover what Harryand a gang of disparate students were up to, as they formed and trained, in secret, as the forbidden organisation, Dumbledore’s Army. However, at the very moment of triumph, when Draco had cornered Harry and his comrades, and when itseemed that Harry must be expelled by Umbridge, Harry slipped through his fingers. Worse still, Harry managed to thwart Lucius Malfoy’s attempt to kill him, and Draco’s father was captured and sent to Azkaban.
Draco的校园生活在五年级时发生了好转。尽管被禁止在霍格沃茨讨论他在家中听到的消息，Draco还是在琐碎的胜利中得到快感：他成为了一名级长（而Harry没有），而且新黑魔法防御术教师Dolores Umbridge看上去和他一样厌恶Harry。他成为了Dolores Umbridge调查行动组的一员，主动负责追查Harry和一群不同学生的行动，那时他们正在以违规组织邓布利多军的身份秘密聚集和训练。然而，就在Draco终于将Harry和他的同伴逼入绝境，而Harry看似一定会被Umbridge开除出校的胜利时刻，Harry从他指缝中逃走了。更糟的是，Harry挫败了Lucius Malfoy的谋杀行动，而Draco的父亲被捕并被送进了阿兹卡班。

现在Draco的世界分崩离析了。在此之前他父亲站在过去从未企及过的权力和名望的顶端，他们都如此相信，而如今他父亲被捕离家，被关进遥远可怖的被噬魂怪把守的巫师监狱。Lucius从Draco出生开始就是他的偶像和英雄。现在他和母亲成为了食死徒中的下等人；Lucius在愤怒的Lord Voldemort眼中已经成为耻辱的失败者。

Draco’s existence had been cloistered and protected until this point; he had been a privileged boy with little to trouble him, assured of his status in the world and with his head full of petty concerns. Now with his father gone and his mother distraught and afraid, he had to assume a man’s responsibilities.
在此之前Draco一直被隔绝和保护着；他曾是一个无忧无虑的优越男孩，确信着自己在世界中的地位，脑海中考虑的全部是琐事。现在他的父亲离开身边，母亲沉浸在悲痛和恐惧中，他必须承担一个男人的责任。
Worse was to come. Voldemort, seeking to punish Lucius Malfoy still further for the botched capture of Harry, demanded that Draco perform a task so difficult that he would almost certainly fail – and pay with his life. Draco was to murder Albus Dumbledore – how, Voldemort did not trouble to say. Draco was to be left to his own initiative and Narcissa guessed, correctly, that her son was being set up to fail by a wizard who was devoid of pity and could not tolerate failure.
事情还在变得更糟。Voldemort打算更为严厉地惩罚Lucius Malfoy抓捕Harry的失败，他命令Draco完成一项极为困难，几乎注定会失败的任务——然后为此失去生命。Draco要去谋杀Albus Dumbledore——至于怎样谋杀Voldemort并没有费心解释。Draco必须自己想办法，而Narcissa正确地猜到，这位毫无同情也绝不容忍失败的巫师只是刻意让她儿子以失败告终。

对于这个仿佛突然间开始与他父亲作对的世界燃起怒火，Draco成为了食死徒的正式成员，同意去进行Voldemort所命令的谋杀。在这最初阶段，内心充斥着复仇之欲，和让父亲重新获得Voldemort偏爱的渴望，Draco并没有完全理解他所接到的命令。他所了解的只是Dumbledore代表了一切他监牢中的父亲厌恶的形象；Draco轻易地让自己确信，他自己也一样认为这个世界失去霍格沃茨校长会变得更好，毕竟Voldemort的反抗者总是在他身边集结。

When Lucius was freed from Azkaban shortly afterwards, the family was allowed to return to Malfoy Manor with their lives. However, they were now completely discredited. From dreams of the highest status under Voldemort’s new regime, the Malfoys found themselves the lowest in the ranks of the Death Eaters; weaklings and failures, to whom Voldemort was henceforth derisive and contemptuous.
在那之后很快Lucius被释放出了阿兹卡班，他们一家被允许重新回到Malfoy庄园。然而，他们现在已经失去了一切名誉。曾经梦想着在Voldemort的新政权下获得最高地位的Malfoy一家发现自己成为了食死徒阶级的最下等；弱者和失败者，从此只会得到Voldemort的嘲讽和鄙夷。
Draco’s changed, yet still conflicted, personality revealed itself in his actions during the remainder of the warbetween Voldemort and those who were trying to stop him. Although Draco had still not rid himself of the hope of returning the family to their former high position, his inconveniently awakened conscience led him to try –half-heartedly, perhaps, but arguably as best he could in the circumstances – to save Harry from Voldemort when the former was captured and dragged to Malfoy Manor. During the final battle at Hogwarts however, Malfoy made yet another attempt to capture Harry and thereby save his parents’ prestige, and possibly their lives. Whether he could have brought himself to actually hand over Harry is a moot point; I suspect that, as with his attempted murder of Dumbledore, he would again have found the reality of bringing about another person’s death much more difficult in practice than in theory.
在Voldemort与那些尽力反抗他的人之间挑起的战争的余下时光中，Draco已然改变，但仍充满矛盾挣扎的人格通过他的行为展现了出来。尽管Draco还是无法摆脱将自己的家族重新提升到原本的高位的希冀，但他不便地觉醒的良心使他——也许并不积极，但可能是他在那种境况下能做的最多的了——在Harry被捕并被运到Malfoy庄园时从Voldemort手中救了他。但在霍格沃茨的最终决战中，Malfoy却再次尝试抓捕Harry，为了挽救他父母的名望，也许甚至是他们的生命。他是否能够真的狠下心将Harry交出去是个争议点；我推测，就像他曾尝试谋杀Dumbledore时那样，他会再次意识到为他人带来死亡在实际中要比理论上困难得多。
Draco survived Voldemort’s siege of Hogwarts because Harry and Ron saved his life. Following the battle, his father evaded prison by providing evidence against fellow Death Eaters, helping to ensure the capture of many of Lord Voldemort’s followers who had fled into hiding.
Draco在Voldemort围攻霍格沃茨的战斗中活了下来，因为Harry和Ron救了他的命。在那场战斗之后，他父亲揭露了针对其他食死徒的证据线索，并且协助追捕了许多藏匿起来的Lord Voldemort的追随者，以此逃脱了牢狱之灾。

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