All his life, choice after choice had been stolen from him at every turn and just when it felt like he was living for something and had made his own choice in the matter, his luck had run out. The summer plans they had all made slipped between the cracks in the floorboards below when the door banged open and in stalked Severus Snape followed by Tiberuis Nott, Dolohov, Bellatrix, Crabbe Snr, and Macnair. Their wands were all raised at Draco.