What happens to Daniel in the novel?
In the novel, it is explained that Louis was furious because Daniel (referred to only as “the boy”) did not get the point…that you DON’T want to be a vampire. “The boy” then looks for Lestat, but Lestat doesn’t show. “The boy” shows up again, now given the name Daniel Malloy, in Queen of the Damned where he finds the now 500-year old vampire Armand, and the two of them form a relationship.