"If we’re all going to be judged forever, by our worst moment, then what’s the point in learning from our mistakes?" Harry said sharply, "Severus Snape was an   actual   Death Eater, but I’ve heard you defend him more than once because Dumbledore vouched for him. Draco was just a mean kid - a bully, but a kid. Is he forever going to be marked by the mistakes he made when he was thirteen? I know he’s done things to hurt you, to hurt all of us, but that doesn’t mean he’s irredeemable," Hagrid looked positively flabbergasted by Harry’s defence of the Slytherin, "He’s changed Hagrid - he’s grown. Just give him a chance," he pleaded, "you haven’t got to like him, but I’m sure you can learn to accept that we do,"