There was an interrogation of a suspected seditionist three months before her son's eleventh birthday that altered something within Hermione. What began as an ordinary day ended as anything but. For the first time in the years since she was plucked from her broom cupboard and taught another way to think, she openly declared that she didn't want to keep going. Of course, she was only brave enough to whisper it aloud to herself in an empty room, but it was far more radical than anything she'd said or done in her years as a loyal follower of the Dark Lord.