Draco listened eagerly to what Potter had to tell him,  finding it easier to not think of the implications if their presence when he could shake his head at their pathetic attempt at a Horcrux. That was a kind of magic that was widely without study as well, mostly due to the nature of actually manufacturing one, and how the people who had made them usually weren’t much for any level of scrutiny.<br/>It was interested how far the teenagers had managed to come in the process though, Draco having read up on the making of Horcruxes and knowing just about what it took to make one.<br/>It was a disgusting piece of magic and Draco could definitely tell how going through with it would corrupt most witches or wizards who tried. He himself had barely felt that it was right to use magic directly after reading about it.<br/>“Sacrifice is pretty far in the process,” he stated, unsure if Potter had ever looked into the making of Horcruxes, but he highly doubted it. It was highly restricted magic, and while he was certain that Potter would easily be able to get his hands on whatever information he needed, he was unsure if he would have even wanted to.<br/>It wasn’t like Draco could blame him if he hadn’t.<br/>Draco himself had spent years studying dark magic and there were several topics that he had skirted around for years before taking the plunge into them; simply having found that too much of it were still like an open wound.