"He's – he's still alive," Malfoy says, anticipating her question, his thumb still stroking back and forth over Hermione's skin. "But he's with his mother. Something – something went wrong during the torture. Or, maybe not wrong, it just...didn't have the effect you-know-who intended." Malfoy sounds guilty, and then in another layer atop that, he seems guilty for feeling guilty. "He's blind."