"I was standing right here" he pointed to the ground where his feet were. The Mind Healer thought that Draco was reliving that day in his mind. "I stood here, and wanted to protect her. Fuck the consequences, without her alive, there was no way Potter would have made it till the end. I made a plan, I'm a bloody Slytherin, planning is my second nature. I knew she couldn't apparate from the grounds because of our wards. Bellatrix and everyone else couldn’t alter them, just my parents and I could. I felt for the wards and knew they weren't changed. So I planned to take Hermione and apparate her away from here. Somewhere safe. My mother had some safehouses my father didn't know about, and I planned to take Hermione there. My mother saw the plan in my mind and put a sticking charm on my feet. The moment Bellatrix used...." He took a deep breath to calm down. 