He hesitated but continued, keeping Theo's secrets were less important than Hermione's safety, "Theo’s father was a part of the inner circle, and the Ministry did raid the manor while we were all being held in Azkaban. The others weren’t marked, and the auror department didn’t have any charges that would stick, so they used Legilimency and Veritaserum to try and corner them into confessing to crimes they could be charged for."