Thank you! It was a little lesson for Draco, too: to realize that he really doesn't know politics, which he's deliberately kept out of, and he really might be as helpless, or as good, as Harry is, no more.

Ooh, I think you will like the scene that comes up at the end of the story! But I can't tell you about it in much detail yet.

That was also a motive for Draco this chapter (though not expressed so well as I could have expressed it).