Draco had been nearly crushed by the weight of everything happening to him thus far, but this was really taking the cake. Not even putting up a fight when Harry and his friends escaped the Manor with the wands in their possession was something he couldn’t say with accuracy that he regretted, but the punishment coming for him was sending him into another panic attack, one that bordered on wanting to throw himself off of the tallest tower in the Manor.
He could have taken anything else over this. The Cruciatus Curse, a target for experiments, having his limbs cut off even. But being forcefully turned into a werewolf wasn’t what he thought he deserved, and if he had had his own wand, he probably would have turned the Killing Curse on himself to save his own skin from such a fate. But he didn’t have it, Harry did, and the wand had been failing him for a year now, so he doubted it would have made a difference.
Turning to Lyra had been one of his last hopes. But she could do nothing, and he collapsed to his knees, body trembling violently, tears streaming down his face as he clung to her the way he used to as a child, frightened of the dark and shadows, of the nightmares that crept through his mind. “Please,” he gasped. “I’m not going to survive this Lyra, he intends to kill me. I can’t do this!”