Only make things harder? Draco’s stunted mind repeated, the heaviness of his head overshadowing any concern he may have had for those words. Perhaps if he had been clear minded, he would have accused her of admitting that she had been the one to drug him. He would have demanded her to tell him how and she would have claimed the title "brightest witch of her age." He would have sneered and told her that his father would be hearing about this from his cell in Azkaban and that she could count on him to use his sparse contacts still in communication with him to rid the Ministry of one less frizzy-haired, know-it-all swot.