One for Sorrow

ITA with everything.:-) It's funny because on the list where I started thinking about this the question came up of Draco owing Snape for the Vow etc. and I realized it seemed important to me that he didn't owe Snape. That is, I think this whole incident is very important for their relationship and it should effect him, and hopefully it will lead to a more mature reciprocal affection between them. But Draco was right to reject Snape and Narcissa's help and to not acknowledge the vow, even as it put him in danger. He had to grow up and experience this stuff to be any real help later on. On some level Snape may even understand this. He should understand it, really, because if he switched sides he might realized that sometimes you have to experience this stuff to really understand it.