He wondered briefly about his mother. Narcissa Malfoy was locked in a cell in Azkaban, her hearing set in a fortnight. Draco didn’t even want to think what would happen to her. He had a lot of good points on his side. Dumbledore’s trust in him which was re-enforced by McGonaggal, his age when he got the mark, his unwillingness to kill anyone, his change in attitude, destroying the Dark objects from the Manor – all of these were part of the reason they had let Draco go.