That horrid night, at the Manor, Draco could have revealed their identities and sold them all out. He hadn't. Then later, during the Battle, he and his goons had had her dead to rights; he could have killed her with Avada Kedavra easily. He didn't. Harry had always told her that, based on the little that he had observed, how Draco might not have been fully committed to the Dark Lord's cause, particularly towards the end when things had started to get really bad. It had been the rationale for Harry to support their old schoolyard enemy's defense, when Draco had gone to trial so long ago. Undue influence, especially as it pertained to a legal, wizarding adult had been an unorthodox counter to the prosecution, but thanks to some significant evidence, if not exactly an overabundance of it, the young heir had been acquitted, avoiding his parents" fate.