"What do you want me to do, Tonks?? Just turn my back on him? Draco needs someone more than ever and he has no one because everyone's been driven off or dead!" He gripped at his hair, looking to his wife with pain in his eyes. "I know what it's like to be alone with no one to turn to. It's the worst feeling a man can have and he's still so young. Even if they blame us... there's little they can do. The Malfoy name is disgraced, on both sides. You said it yourself... he's doing so much better. He's less of a prat, he's trying to help around the house and with Teddy, he's been polite. All of that since he started staying with us. Ignore the bit about the manor, for now, if we have to. Talk to your mother about it. I just..."

He scrubbed a hand over his face. They very rarely fought, and it hurt to do so about anything. What more could he say?