She didn't know how to answer the question convincingly. It wasn't as if she could admit that the only reason she even considered returning to her husband was because she felt an obligation to free Aberforth Dumbledore from the prison she didn't mean to put him in. That was a dangerous admission that she couldn't afford to make. As close as they'd gotten over the years as some of the only female Death Eaters in the Inner Circle, Hermione felt certain that she couldn't actually trust Alecto with that secret. In fact, the longer they were around each other, the more she began to wonder if she could trust her at all.