It had not taken much to turn Hermione against her king. After all, she did not know him: he had never offered her a job or a roof over her head, and had never reformed the country’s laws to enable her to procure either of those things easily. Additionally, as the Duke and Duchess had pointed out to her, the Dumbledore family was barely worthy of aristocracy, while the houses of Black and Malfoy had previously worn the Sorting Hat. They were the obvious choice of leader.