Hermione left the Ministry in the early afternoon before anyone else. No one tried to stop her, not even her Co-Head. He merely told her that there was no rush to interview the Plunketts. They weren't going anywhere and he preferred to let them sit longer in their terror. Apparently after speaking with his daughter Julia, he discovered the upsetting truth that Rosalind was only a year older than his daughter. They'd both been in Slytherin House together. Friends, even. It bothered him all the more that they'd sold their daughter in marriage to someone so horrible.