She knew without even needing to ask that Augustus would flee the country at the first sign of trouble. It wasn't that he was a coward. Far from it. He just knew when it was best to be out of the reach of anyone who didn't have his best interests at heart. His family was in France. They might have abandoned him when he was first thrown into Azkaban so many years earlier, but he wasn't the kind of man to hold that against them. Whether they wanted him or not, he would be where his boys were. Two of them already had children of their own and the youngest was just about to the age when he wanted to finally settle down with a pretty French witch. If the regime started to crumble and with it the world they'd helped build, he would remove himself from the action to take care of his family.