Outside, It's America

I totally agree. And I'm no Draco fan. Since HBP, Draco it seems to me has done the best he can while being trapped. He and his parents know that if they make one false move, they're fucked, and so Draco goes along with everything, but he clearly doesn't want to sell out Harry and company at the mansion, and everything he does as a Death Eater is reluctant, even a little subversive. He never musters up the nerve to defy them, but his whole family is at stake, not just himself. And his concern for his friends in that scene stood out to me too. As did his refraining from doing Harry any actual violence. I think he's someone who's grown up being taught to think a certain way, but isn't fundamentally a bad person. When he's confronted with the consequences of the things he's been taught, he's appalled. And I think that's what we're meant to take away from that little nod in the epilogue.

Again, I'm no H/D shipper, but even *I* boggled at the wand thing. :)