She slid her gaze over to Hermione, fixing her cold stare on her. "I called Sirius and Regulus to the crime scene the same time I called the police, and just as they all showed up, I did what had to be done. To protect myself, and my son, from my husband and his temper. I framed them and left the child with them. There wasn't much of an investigation since by then Lucius and Pettigrew had hidden in the shadows, and the police were not wont to believe a woman capable of murder."