"Hiding is a matter of survival. Try to imagine how my life would have been if I hadn't convinced everyone at school that they could trust me. Wizards tend to be hypocrites. They don't admit it, but when they want, they can be more evil than the two of us combined. When I was eleven, I still knew very little about the Dark Arts, and yet, the entire Hogwarts had decided to hate me anyway. I was insulted in the corridors, isolated in the class, and my only fault was being a Malfoy. I quickly learned to act. I had to disguise myself, or they would have destroy me."