Draco's Trial

"Precisely. Pain is control. Fear is control. The immense amount of pain the dark mark causes when it's wearer disobeys, is enough to temporarily debilitate said wearer."

"But does that really excuse everything else he's done, Mr. Potter? Do we really want to base the severity of his sentence on one thing he did right?"

"Do we really want to ruin his whole life for something he did wrong as a child? He was... he was just a boy. As was I, as was Fred weasley, and all the other young victims of this war. We're all just children."