"Malfoy and his family spent a lot of time causing issues in the wizarding community, but at the insistence of Lucius, Draco’s choices were limited. I don’t doubt he believes he is who he has become, and to a degree it might be true. But he needs a chance to show us all that our suspicions are right, I hope we are right in thinking he can do better if we enable him to be. I think we are all in agreement that a punishment for his crimes would be apt, but to sentence him to Azkaban would be sentencing him to death. There would be no purpose other than it being the easy way out.’