The promise of restoring his family to its former glory was only an acceptable reason to a certain extent. If Draco had no further ambitions or desires, Hermione believed he was wrong to ally himself with an unpredictable man who had a history of manipulating the minds of those he wished to control. It had been her before. Who was to say the next victim wouldn't be Draco? Clearly, Rodolphus" power had gone unchecked for a long time. The more she considered it, the more she assumed there must have been someone in the Magic Registration office on his side. He couldn't have gone four years completely under the radar performing such complicated and delicate spells if he didn't have someone on the inside of the Ministry of Magic working to expunge his records. His plan for ultimate control over the wizarding world had indeed been years in the making, possibly even decades.