"But I did. I had to. You can call me a monster and I won’t protest. I deserve it. But if I left Marcus alive after what he did, you’d be in the cold ground by now." Draco nailed down. "You think you’re such a Slytherin now for learning how to talk back to people. Truth is that if you were stuck with someone who wanted you dead for a year you wouldn’t make it. You wouldn’t even see it coming."