"But they wouldn’t want to punish him, would they? They couldn’t put Draco on trial, not now that he’s fighting on our side. I mean he helped destroy a Horcrux! He was instrumental in finding and destroying the diadem – they can’t put him on trial as a war criminal after that. And there were so many extenuating circumstances behind why he did what he did once he became a Death Eater. He didn’t have any choice – he was trapped. They can’t put him on trial for things that he was basically forced into...can they?" Hermione said the last two words in a small and frightened voice, eyes hopeful on Tonks’s face, and she didn’t like what she saw there.