Shrugging, his "equal" looked out of the window. "Ron's tired of the manipulations. He, his family, basically the majority of the wizarding world are dancing to Dumbledore's tune. He understands your agenda and that to succeed, sometimes the end justifies the means. Hermione ... she's too kind. While she has an idea of what magic is capable off, she still can't understand the full scope. Occlumency, Leglimency, she is a natural at mind arts, like with basically everything else. But she can't even imagine the abuse that's possible with mind magic. I think that's why she was okay with the more "psychological" approach I took with Severus. It would not even come to her to rewrite his mind to suit our needs. But touching him, being around, merely being kind and interested in his work, his thoughts ... to her, that's just decent human behaviour. I think she's not even aware of how much a person can become dependant on his only source of comfort."