Draco remembers sitting across from the school’s new headmistresses, irritated and cold and just wanting to get back to his books, thank you very much, and he remembers the way his blood had frozen in his veins, had buzzed behind his ribcage and his eyeballs and the back of his tongue when she said the words, quietly, tearily, "Mr Malfoy, I’m so sorry—there’s been an accident at home—your mother—"