Re: Severus/Draco
I found that out on the first day. My father used to tell me that he would lead us, preach the value of purity and it was all I knew. I wanted that mark, and I wanted to prove myself. I tried to do that for a year. I worked on those cabinets every moment that I wasn't in class. I separated myself even from you, and I believed him. I was loyal - and expendable. That is how loyalty was repaid.
[............] I don't believe you. [He has to take a minute, along with a shot of firewhiskey.]
Those things you are speaking of are in the present tense, not old ideals, but present. I know you don't have the memories of the war, but I do. I can show you the reality.