Now, it would’ve been easy to match the four of them up with Crabbe, Goyle, Millicent Bulstrode, and Alecto Carrow, but the Dark Lord was cleverer than that. Dumbledore had once said the Dark Lord was familiar with more refined forms of cruelty, and in this he was entirely right. He had far subtler and more devious ways of punishing them than forcing them to marry the ugliest and most thuggish purebloods around.