It wasn’t so long ago that he didn’t care much what happened to him, but now he has a responsibility to someone else. However things go in the next few days or weeks, his first consideration is to keep Hermione safe. He apparates back to the Manor and is surprised to find the residents – his "guests" – gathered in the dining room. He folds his arms and looks around the table, his eyebrow up. Tristan Nott is missing, he notes, but just about everyone else is there, including Renaud and Margo Parkinson, Pansy’s parents, who usually keep to their own quarters. Daphne is seated between her mother and Rodolphus, her hands folded on the table. He wonders who has gathered them together like this.