"Crucio" a smooth female voice, killed the remaining attempts at communication between the former classmates, causing the 3 former witches to writhe on the floor in abject pain. "Severus, Arthur, I think you need to being forward your surgery schedule, I think our little Muddy was trying to conspire with these other slaves, best snuff out this nasty defiance once and for all". Hermione could only absorb the news in mute horror, trying to come to terms that her body was due to undergo more forced changes, but she was distracted by Padma’s histrionics, as her former classmate prostrated herself on the floor kissing the tailor’s feet, distancing herself from Hermione’s actions, carefully disavowing herself of any allegiance either current or former to the Death Eater’s plaything in front of her.