Hermione smiled. It was an old statement that her Head of House had been making to generations of her Gryffindors. While many of the professors teaching in the castle at the end of the war chose to leave for other opportunities or to simply get away from the regime, Minerva McGonagall felt a duty to continue protecting her students. She still had an enormous amount of respect and admiration for the Transfiguration professor even if the elderly witch no longer had much use for her former student. She would refrain from being openly hostile in Hermione's presence, but she was never warm. That part of Hermione's life was over.