Then, Draco began to consider, quickly ponder, and realize who exactly it was that stood before him. This was not the kindhearted, tender, benevolent Headmaster the students had come to know. Dumbledore, having been pushed beyond the precipice of war and forced to engage the Death Eaters so blatantly, would remind the magical world how perilous an act it would be to choose the wrong side in the battles to come.