"Mother!" Draco cried. "Please! I didn’t... I didn’t mean to-" His voice knotted in his throat and got trapped in his vocal chords. Shaking hands stroke his mother’s cheeks. Slowly, emotions blinked back to life in his chest, and Draco’s heart thudded on the floor of his stomach. Confusing, opaque and piercing sadness clouded him like a curtain of frost. 