Draco might not be completely evil, but he did some stupid, illegal and dangerous things, some of which could have been disastrous had it not been for pure dumb luck.

JKR has a very weird sense of justice, as she lets Malfoys get off way too lightly

Love for your own family should absolve you from war crimes!

But if we look at postwar Germany, too many war criminals got off extremely lightly and with their wealth intact. One such example was Günther Quandt, founder of BMW and a hardcore Nazi:

Günther Quandt (28 July 1881 – 30 December 1954) was a German industrialist who founded an industrial empire that today includes BMW and Altana, a car and chemical company, respectively. Between, 1921 and 1929 he was married to Magda Ritschel, later the wife of Nazi Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels. In the 1930s he joined the Nazi Party, becoming one of his strong financial supporters.[1]


So the real world is not perfect, but can we at least have some better wish fulfillment in fictions?

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