Hermione braced herself, knowing she couldn’t rest if she didn’t at least ask. "If I had been more persistent...if I had begged McGonagall to let me visit you every day at the Ministry and told you of my suspicions regarding Shacklebolt and Percy, would there have come a time when you would have believed me? If I had found out earlier that Draco was mentally tortured in Azkaban, would you have cared? If I had told you that I had memory proof of Percy’s crimes, would you have listened?"