Hermione swallowed the guilt she immediately felt, nodding at the Headmistress, knowing this was something she would have to keep from Malfoy. They had finally begun to break down some of the barriers between them and she would have to build up a new one– a new one that held information concerning his mother. Hermione knew how important Narcissa Malfoy was to her son– she’d always suspected that everything he did during the war was to keep his family safe, mainly his mother. Was Narcissa safe? The ministry suspected the threats to be benign, but the ministry had failed the British wizarding population before, who was to say they wouldn’t do it again? There was staunch opposition on the Wizengamot to Narcissa’s release from a few members, was she truly out of harm’s way?