This time Dumbledore was not smiling. He looked at Draco solemnly for a minute. Then he whispered, "You and I both know Mr. Malfoy that you are no killer. You are a survivor, however. You do whatever needs to be done to protect yourself. But sometimes protecting yourself is not enough. Your choices may have kept you alive then, but I believed you would soon come to see that it would not be enough. You just needed time and Severus here helped buy you some time. That’s all.’