"I’m- I’m so sorry, okay? I feel terrible. McGonagall swore Ginny and I to confidence with the information. Families of known traitors to Voldemort were receiving threats– threatening letters, which we now know were found to simply be benign, but at the time the ministry was concerned they were serious and that Voldemort sympathizers would attempt an uprising. So, as part of their investigation into the threats, and more of what I believe was simply a political move to "rid the pureblood elite" of anything dark leaning, the ministry removed those objects. I- the book... it’s-"