She repeated the story she'd written in her letter. Karkarov asked to see her family ring, and she produced it from her pocket ("It's my father's, I think, they did not have time to forge my own for me during the war, so it is too big for me to wear"). He had a few probing questions about her relationship with her parents, and why she'd left Hogwarts. Hermione was proud of the steadiness of her voice, as she said that the point of having Muggle caretakers, the reason she liked them, was that they didn't have the mental capacity for pureblood politics, which she disliked. "They think I am an ordinary Muggle child," she explained, "and so they do not bother me. I can study in peace, and I am much more interested in academia than anything else. This is also why I left Hogwarts - I did not find their classes ... sufficiently stimulating."