Order Only: Private Message to Remus

[alt_sirius]

Are you still at Malfoy Manor?

How is everything going? You don't want to kill her already, I hope. Well, Draco's probably keeping her calm, I expect.

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[alt_lupin]

Over the course of a few years, they went from Lucius being the second-most-powerful wizard in Britain, to him being 'out of favour with Our Lord,' to him being thrown into Azkaban after the revelation that their only child had been teaching magic to a muggleborn witch. Lucius went to Azkaban a little under a year ago, so she's had a good, long, isolated while to adjust to a world where her unquestioning loyalty won't protect her or anyone she cares about.

So...yes. For her to come to her enemies for help -- as she did months ago, when she went to Rachel -- desperation made her reasonable. She'd made that bargain, I guess. Accepted that all that really mattered to her, in the end, was the safety of the people she loved.

As for what tipped her off about Hydra... well. Draco and Harry were always thick as thieves, it required a certain willing denial to believe that Draco could have been carrying on with Hermione and Harry never had a clue. And for Hydra, Draco's cousin, to have no clue? when she's a legilimens? Again, it's just not that bloody likely. The hair was certainly part of it. But possibly losing her own loyalty made her rather clear-eyed about who else might be doing the dance steps laid out for them while plotting treason.