One of the first times she had any inkling that her teacher desired her was only weeks after she was removed from the broom cupboard and placed in his care. He'd already begun the laborious task of reprogramming her mind. Hermione was no idiot. She knew that she had been manipulated, possibly even brainwashed. Thoughts she would never have had before when she was still a young Gryffindor with two best friends who believed she could do her part to make the wizarding world a better place often took root inside her mind.