Although Hermione was sure that most of her pet’s deviant behavior from his past was just that, in the past, she wasn’t naive enough to think that a person’s base personality could be completely snuffed out. Besides, she would never want that for her pet. She enjoyed his Slytherin qualities she had known he possessed since they were eleven years old. Still, Hermione thought she did well in letting Draco occasionally test his boundaries while also reinforcing the nature of their relationship. She was the dominant and he the submissive.