Hermione nodded. "We used those surveys as a baseline, actually. The next step is now encouraging Lavender and others to come forward and give their opinions on the record. It will only better inform us, and the Merlinment." She said this, even as she knew that final lycanthrope reform could still be many months, if not years, away. House elf emancipation had taken more than a year to accomplish; bloodline anti-discrimination, nearly a year and a half. Both of these had been centered around fairly straightforward issues, despite the hiccups seen in passage of the former regarding a voluntary surrender program of house elf assets. There would be no such streamlining in crafting policy to help the werewolves – opinions on the matter were partisan and contentious, and opponents would seek to drag their feet and delay the motion as long as possible.