Hermione considered the names on the list Draco had given her earlier in the month. There was a discernible pattern. Rodolphus was trying to get a representative from all of the Sacred Twenty-Eight families still in existence. Though it would take some research to find members from the female line on some of the families because the male line had died out, the vast majority of the families still had members. Some of them were even prominent citizens. It would explain why Rodolphus tried to recruit Thorfinn to his side and why his father-in-law was on the list. Aubin considered himself more Fawley than anything else. She imagined that in exchange for his assistance, Rodolphus would allow the horrible man to keep his mother's maiden name and the family's seat. That was, of course, before it was known how close he was to murdering Hermione. Renegotiations would likely need to be made.