"You’ve raised an excellent point, my lord," Gryffindor interrupted. "When we win. What are your plans? Do we depose Lords Ravenclaw and Hufflepuff? Absorb their territories? That way lies bloodshed. Go back to the status quo? I doubt our people would take well to that, having spent life and limb. Yet if we merely strip some assets from the lords and leave them in place, they’ll remain ever scheming, spurred on by the humiliation of loss. And what of the power structure? Am I to believe that Lucius and Narcissa Malfoy, as victors, would be perfectly willing to forget their ambitions and placidly take Dumbledore back as King? Instead of – say – marching on Hogsmeade and the Tower?"