"No," she said. "I owe you an apology. I didn’t believe you when you tried telling us the truth at school. I thought you were only jealous, and I laughed at you. I figured opposites attract, and they’d eloped. That they’d kept it secret all that time to avoid judgement, and that he proposed and managed to convince her not to finish school. Those were the most accepted theories in Slytherin at the time. Our parents who’d been involved in the invasion of Hogwarts knew that he’d tried to kidnap her then, but it was forbidden to talk about. At the time, nobody wanted to give it more thought than that, even if we knew he had no good intentions, and that he was capable of taking her."