Her rise to success had been meteoric. The Malfoys had confirmed she was telling the truth about the assassination plot, of course. Crabbe, Goyle and Macnair had been rounded up immediately and placed in the dungeons. Hermione didn’t know precisely what had happened next, but she did know that the duchess’s sister Princess Bellatrix had arrived and spent quite a bit of time alone with the prisoners. Their screams had been audible throughout the Manor.