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Galfoy, also known as Malfoid or Malfoy Girl, and in some works as Dracia or Draconia Malfoy, is a fan-madegender-swapped version of the Harry Potter franchise character Draco Malfoy. She is usually drawn in an anime style with Draco's platinum-blonde hair and Slytherin uniform, and given a tsundere personality: she mocks Harry Potter while secretly being in love with him. Female versions of Draco had appeared in fan fiction since the early 2000s and in fan art since the 2010s, but the character became an Internet meme in late September 2026, when anime-style drawings of her spread on X and then to Reddit and other fan communities. The trend produced comics, fan fiction, AI-generated videos and a fan-made dating sim, drew contributions from professional manga artists, and attracted attention in Japan, South Korea and Taiwan. The name "Malfoid" has drawn criticism because it combines Malfoy with "foid", a derogatory term for women used in incel communities.
Background
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. In January 2018, Twitter and DeviantArt user Jean "TheMightFenek" Hayashi posted a comic of 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.[citation needed] In Taiwan, users of the C_Chat board on 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. In South Korea, an amateur web novel with a female Draco, 악역영애 말포이 (lit. "Villainess Malfoy"), was published free of charge in 110 instalments and completed about five years before the 2026 trend. 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.
The concept went viral in September 2026 following a post of Galfoy on X by RedTeneri, which was followed by hundreds of thousands[citation needed] of pieces of fan-art, fan-fiction, Harry Potter rewrites, fan films, and dating simvideo games being produced about the character and ship, both from human-made and artificial intelligence-produced sources. 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. 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. The drawings spread from X to Reddit and other Harry Potter fan communities within days. 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; a fan-made visual novel, Malfoid Dating Sim: Pureblood & Prejudice; and the AI-animated series In Another Universe by the creator Foyege, which retells the story around Harry and a female Draco named Draconia. In October, an English-language post on X pointing to the Korean web novel was viewed more than 12 million times.
The name "Galfoy" is derived from "Girl Malfoy" or "Gal-foy";[citation needed] the manga artists Soichiro Yamamoto and Shun Saeki captioned their drawings "Girl Malfoy" and "Gal Foy". The name "Malfoid" combines Malfoy with "foid", short for "femoid", a derogatory term for women used in incel communities. According to Tuổi Trẻ, the name appears to be used in the fan-art trend mainly as a pun on Malfoy's surname, and the art does not play on its derogatory meaning; Indiatimes reported that many of those posting the art treated it as a pun on the surname, while others objected to the word choice. Spanish-language media have called the character "Malfoy Girl".
Reception
Carl Martin Agustin of Lifestyle.INQ wrote that, while the upcoming HBO television series faced criticism over its casting and over J. K. Rowling's views on transgender people, fan art of a female Draco seemed "to be the one thing fans are happily agreeing upon", and that pairing Draco with Harry gave his betrayal and later redemption "more depth and significance". Tuổi Trẻ attributed the trend's spread partly to how closely Draco's wealth, arrogance and pride in his lineage match the "rich young lady" and villainess archetypes of manga and anime, and wrote that the 2026 trend did not create a new idea but let an old one reach a wider audience through social media, adding to interest in the franchise's characters ahead of the HBO series in December 2026. Ian Dean of Creative Bloq called Foyege's AI series "weird to watch" but "oddly compelling", describing such videos as "a new, professionalised aspect of fan fiction" while raising unresolved questions about copyright and AI training data.
In early October, the artist Yunayu posted a drawing of the female Draco on Bluesky and received hostile replies, some arguing that any new Harry Potter content kept attention on Rowling and others objecting to the "foid" element of the name. Yunayu deleted the drawing and apologised, saying the dispute had been unknown to them when they drew it, and on 6 October reposted it on X, where the response was mostly supportive.
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References
↑W. Amirul Adlan (October 5, 2026). ""Galfoy" Trend Sees Everyone Drawing Draco Malfoy As A Chick". SlimePress. Retrieved October 16, 2026. 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.
123이원용 (2026-10-06). "'여자 말포이'가 뭐길래…일본·서양 홀린 한국 아마추어 웹소설"[What is 'female Malfoy'? The Korean amateur web novel that captivated Japan and the West]. 월요신문 (in Korean). Retrieved 2026-10-23.
1234希洛 (2026-10-05). "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？"[Draco becomes a girl: "gender-swapped Malfoy" goes viral in the West, but were Taiwanese netizens six years ahead?]. udn遊戲角落 (in Chinese (Taiwan)). 聯合新聞網. Retrieved 2026-10-23.
