While Draco described it as routine<span style="font-style: italic">routine</span>it was was anything but standard protocol, only making the furrow between Harry’s brows grow deeper. He was stalled in space, knife and fork still in each hand as his breakfast remained steaming but untouched between them.<br/>“Is that a condition of your plea bargain?” Harry had to aske, too straight forward but finding that line of questioning to be the most efficient.<br/>Harry could sympathize with the desperation to lessen his charge, or to keep himself out of Azkaban, but even the suggestion of placing a 19 year old on 11 years of probation and counting felt ludicrous. He wasn’t even sure he would have gotten Draco approved as a consultant hire if he was still under Ministry wardship.<br/>“How many years of probation did they give you?”