Remus took her hand and gave it a squeeze as two aurors she didn’t recognize brought in Lucius Malfoy. His long hair was limp across his shoulders, and it was obvious he hadn’t had a proper meal in weeks, if not longer. Before the court stood a man totally defeated. The aurors had their wands trained on him and his hands were bound at his front. They shuffled him over to a seat in the center of the room and as he sat, four walls slid up from the floorboards to make a cage around the man. Hermione was shocked at the barbaric practice, and she looked over to Sirius who was wearing a hardened expression. He didn’t at all seem surprised.