"But how do you stand it?" Ron protested as he threw his trunk in the flyover. "Malfoy calling you that foul name. You just let him say what he wants about you." Hermione sat stroking Crookshanks" ginger fur. "I just put up with it, Ron. It's not a big deal," Hermione said."Well, it is to me, Malfoy gets away with quite enough already, we can't keep giving him liberties."Honestly, Ronald. You'd think that was more important than what he was doing in Borgin & Burkes," Hermione retorted. "Aren't you both curious?" Hermione turned her attention to Harry too. "Not in the slightest, Malfoy's dad's a deatheater, him being down Knockturn Alley is hardly a surprise, is it?" Ron said, looking towards Harry for support. "I have to agree with Hermione on this one, Ron," Harry said. "His father's in Azkaban, what business would he have in Borgin & Burkes without his father?"Precisely, and why was he so interested in the object he wanted fixed?" Hermione wondered. "Not really our concern is it?" said Ron. "Why do we care what he's up to? It's a creepy shop, he's a creepy bloke. What are you both trying to say here?" "I think he's one of them," Harry said, confirming Hermione's thoughts. "One of who?" Ron asked, puzzled. "A deatheater, Ron, and I quite agree," Hermione said. "You're barking, what would you-know-who want with a sod like Malfoy?" Ron said, sitting up, clearly more interested than before."Well, what was he doing in Borgin & Burkes?" asked Harry."As I said, creepy bloke, creepy shop," Ron repeated."Well, I do agree with you on one thing," Harry said, addressing Ron. "It only makes sense he was down there because his father was a deatheater. If he has become one, then that's just one more reason to hate him. There's really nothing we can do about it, Hermione."Well if I'm honest, I'm not entirely sure what we would do or what he's doing for you-know-who, but it is curious," said Hermione, gazing out the window. Draco was up to something and Hermione, for some odd reason, could not shake it out of her mind. It was not Draco's discretion, nor was it about his father, it was that cabinet. Ron and Harry did not know it, but Hermione knew the object Malfoy was talking about in Borgin & Burkes; it was that large cabinet. Hermione could recall reading about a dark object that was described exactly how that cabinet looked at Borgin & Burkes. She knew it was that he was pointing at because there was nothing else within the vicinity of that cabinet when she walked in after Malfoy in the shop, but why was he so obsessed with it? And why did he want it fixed? Hermione did not share Harry and Ron's lack of interest in this because they simply did not know the value of that cabinet. Hermione remembered reading about it in Objects of the Dark Arts. She had pulled the book from the restricted section of the library with the permission of Professor McGonagall to help with her essay on the First Wizarding War. It was all about the uses of dark objects, often used in the First Wizarding War in the fight against He-who-must-not-be-named. Hermione focused on what she had read and remembered the following: