Hermione returned to Spinner's End late Monday night after work to find Lucius and Severus in the living room, drinking and quietly talking. She had completed the inventory of Yaxley's files and had been left with a small stack of open files she'd deemed worthy of further investigation.  Most of them she had passed off to the Auror office to delegate between them but there were two she had kept aside that she wanted to ask Yaxley about, both related to a series of strange disappearances and murders that, according to Yaxley’s notes, had not been authorized by Voldemort and seemed in no way connected, at least at first look, to Death Eater activities.