"Please, Granger, whatever you do...can you keep my mother safe? She – she isn’t bad. She was born into this, brought up to believe in pureblood superiority...and then she married father, and believed whatever he did because Merlin she loves him so much, and, and...she’s never hurt anyone, honestly. She doesn’t deserve to die." The words tumbled out of him and he sounded like a frightened little boy, and Hermione believed everything he said. She didn’t want to, but she did.