He was raised to know his place in the world, and always thought he did: at the top, looking down on all the rest with well-deserved condescension, as a wizard and a Pureblood ought. But sixth year finds him hiding in a disused privy, the hem of his robes sopping from overflowing toilet-water and the Dark Lord's first victim hovering without any particular judgment around his head, and the more he thinks about it, the more he realizes he knows nothing at all.
I can do this, he tells himself, I can, and he imagines himself doing it, and lifts his wand to practice the gesture he'll need - but the sneering smirk he tries to affect looks wrong in the mirror, and when he tries to mouth the words avada kedavra, the only thing that comes out is "I can't."
His hair is sleek and gorgeous and flawless but it should not be covering his entire body. He has always been good at wriggling his way out of things but that is no excuse for his spine to bend in so many places. Draco was made for greatness, not for life as an Incredible Bouncing Ferret.
Draco is given Harry after the Dark Lord breaks him. Draco has the reward but has no idea what to do. He tries but he does not understand and Harry's friend find him and take him away and the Lord falls and Draco cannot find himself to be against it.
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