Hermione instructed her account manager to assist her in setting the house elves to complete a comprehensive inventory of the estates. And the order to use any means they determined necessary to repel uninvited visitors of a not innocent nature. "Any means," she stressed. Galanis regarded her curiously, so she continued, "You are both intelligent enough to guess I am not a natural child of House Lestrange. I am a gamble that paid off. I have learned the hard way that those with knowledge keep it for their benefit. People want my knowledge, so will pay my price to obtain it."