Some of his anger had dissipated with the curse that he preferred to use to end others" lives. As much as Hermione loathed that he continued to use the curse that once nearly killed her when she was a teenager, he never budged. Everyone had their own way of preferring to make their kills. She'd lost count the number of throats she'd opened up with a slicing spell. Though bloody and incredibly messy, she'd never found another death-inducing spell to be so satisfying.