Play the mother card? Obviously, the Hufflepuff wasn't getting it. Draco's fist clenched tighter at his side. Usually, it was Potter who did this, who set his teeth on edge and with Potter he had no guilt about fighting back. But Justin? This was new. He barely knew the boy, only that he liked Quidditch, was Muggleborn, and at least liked boys, whether or not that meant that he was gay was something else in Draco's book. Surprisingly, the Slytherin prince didn't really care about that.
"I'm not hiding who I was and what I did, am I?" Draco spat back, his gaze locked in on Justin's fiercely. "We all know what it was that I did. I've made my amends to most of those who I need to make them to, and there are still some that I've yet to speak to, but I will do that in due time. At least you know where your mother is," murmured Draco softly, "and she had the choice to run. Mine did not. If she ran, my insane aunt would have tracked her down, used her to do something. What, I don't bloody well know. If we'd run, we would have been tracked down. Running meant death, even if we'd surrendered our magic. That's what you don't understand."
Draco fell silent briefly, looking over the other boy wearily. "I'm not going to apologize for the acts of every bloody Death Eater, because it's not my fault, and it's not my doing. I will, however, apologize to those whom I personally hurt, in due time. I've already started it, as I've said, and if you're that much insulted by me, then take a free shot." He'd found this an effective way to get the other idiots to shut up. If he offered them a free shot, most wouldn't take up on it. Potter hadn't. Weasley hadn't. Even Granger hadn't, yet. The offer was still there, and she could attack Malfoy manor whenever she chose to, if she so did. "If hurting me makes the situation better, then do it. I'll even surrender my wand, and I'll swear an oath not to use non-verbal magic or Legilmency, both of which I'm more than efficient at.
Draco moved then, taking out his wand and holding it out to Justin. He understood, more than he let on most times, how things were interpreted. And Draco knew that this wasn't something he personally could or had to fix, that if Justin's anger was against all Death Eaters, Draco wasn't going to apologize for it.