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| Galfoy | |
|---|---|
| Harry Potter fandom character | |
First appearance | "Genderbend Draco Malfoy" (January 14, 2018) |
| Created by | Jean "TheMightFenek" Hayashi |
| Based on | |
| In-universe information | |
| Species | Wizard |
Significant other | Harry Potter |
| Nationality | British |
House | Slytherin |
Galfoy, also known as Dracia Malfoy, Draconia Malfoy, or Malfoid, is a fan-made tsundere and gender-swapped version of the 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. 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, 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.
In January 2018, Japanese Twitter and DeviantArt user Jean "TheMightFenek" Hayashi started a drawing trend of drawing Draco Malfoy gender-swapped, as a girl instead of a boy, Dracia Malfoy, and likened to the tsundere anime trope in being shipped with Harry Potter, in a variation of the Drarry ship. The concept went viral in September 2026 following a Twitter post of Galfoy by RedTeneri, which was followed by hundreds of thousands of pieces of fan-art, fan-fiction, Harry Potter rewrites, fan films, and dating sim video games being produced about the character and ship, both from human-made and artificial intelligence-produced sources.
The trend has been positively compared to the Bowsette and Petra Parker trends. One such Potter/Galfoy-centric Harry Potter rewrite, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Tsundere by GuardBro, was removed from Royal Road following a copyright claim by J. K. Rowling.
Additionally, Soichiro Yamamoto, Bkub Okawa, and Shun Saeki drew fan-art of Galfoy.
Harry Potter is back, but not in the way you expect – because now everyone's 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.
