"Mrs Malfoy..." Tiptree stepped up and told his mother to let him go, to go help someone called Mika to see to the children, but she tearfully refused. Told Draco over and over again that she loved him, and with each repetition he grew angrier. But he stood frozen, turning his face away and looking at the floor, the windows, the wall – anywhere but his mother. In the end Tiptree had to physically pry his mother’s hand away, and she seemed to give up at last, dissolving into noisy, ugly sobs.