Returning to work at the Ministry the day after Rabastan made his not-so-veiled invitation to join him in overthrowing her husband in the inevitable power struggle looming ahead put Hermione in an awkward position. She wasn't sure what she wanted to say to the man's request. Did he actually believe that she would be willing to betray her husband of over a decade? The more she considered it, the more she realized that yes, he did. After all, she'd almost killed her husband. While that wasn't common knowledge to their society at large, the secret had to have been known by the entire Inner Circle. Certainly Rabastan wasn't the sort of person to not seek out any potential information on his rivals.