Crimes of the Three-Inch Headmaster

"There comes a point when it's not that you don't care anymore, you just can't."

Loyalty can only be stretched so far. It's like an elastic band. If you stretch it too far, it breaks and theirs no fixing it. When you stretch someone's loyalty, there's no earning it back. Your elastic band is broken and no matter how many times you try and fix it or get a new one, it's never the same band you once knew.

"You give them a taste of their own medicine, then they tell everyone you poisoned them."

When you've been stretched so far and you break, you can choose to be strong or give up. If you choose to be strong, you might feel like the need to say FUCK YOU and show them what they did to hurt you, but then it gets turned around and blamed on you.

Draco Malfoy is absolutely done living in the shadow of the plan his parents have for him. He's reached his breaking point and he physically can't go on pretending to be some evil bastard anymore. It's killing him.