Harry took Hermione by the shoulders and held her still. He glared fiercely into her eyes and spoke low and firm. "If I ever hear you say anything like that again I'm going to hex you, got it? That isn't my wonderful wife talking, it's an insane facsimile. Firstly, you are not manipulating me. You are showing me that I still have a choice to do good in these dark times if I want to, which I'd practically forgotten that was a choice I still had. And these girls are too important to just send away. Lucy is my blood, and who knows what the Death Eaters might have used that for if they got that far. We can safely assume they used it to turn her into a Protector of the Lost Horcrux.