Of course then the problem was that Snape thought he was just as much a failure as the rest of them - which he was. For the first time he tried to feel that strange doubling, and didn't. Whatever ghost thoughts he'd been having, apparently Snape didn't set any of them off. He was apparently exactly what Draco knew him to be, and still there was something off - a feeling behind it that there was something that he ought to know and didn't, an it irked him more than anything else.
"I haven't made any progress," He answered finally, still watching Snape's hands rather than looking at his face. "Which you damn well know. Dumbledore keeps himself locked away in those new rooms, he might as well not even be here." Which was true, but of course wasn't why Draco hadn't made any progress.