Harry made a face at that, finding that to be a subjective stance that the Auror Department didn’t usually entertain.<br/>"Not in the eye of the DMLE," he said, his tone of voice indicating that that was the official stance the Ministry had taken on the matter. "Nothing that added to their charges, anyway; they settled with a simple charge of harassment and disturbance of peace."<br/>In theory, Harry agreed with the decision made by the prosecutors. Despite the personal discomfort that case had caused him, he thought it to be plenty punishment being expelled from Hogwarts, barred from returning for their spring semester.<br/>However, Harry sat left with a feeling that Malfoy had asked him for<span style="font-style: italic">his </span>opinion. He adverted his eye, once again furrowing his brow in hesitation. He looked down on the folder, opening it to rifle through the material to revisit it.<br/>"I don’t know," he admitted, reluctantly. "They admitted to having attempted to make a Horcrux, but not to ever having intention of killing a person."<br/>Harry hadn’t spent too long wondering whether or not they had been truthful in that, by then the case handed over to the Wizengamot; he closed the folder, that line of thought no longer relevant.<br/>Shifting in his seat, Harry inched forward far enough to offer Malfoy the folder.<br/>"They failed their attempt at an animal sacrifice, so there was some trace amount of poorly executed magic still stuck in the shed. In the eye of the Ministry, that just amounts to, well," Harry hesitated, no delicate way around it, "- killing a cat."