"Do you know what I think it is? Everyone protected him. Molly did. Dumbledore did in giving him to us, in setting us up to be there for him. Everything has told him he deserves what he wants. We didn't have that. Draco didn't have it either. He was coddled and we played into it, not knowing better. And when he learned he was being given the world, he didn't get insulted by it, he leaned into it," she says, sounding so angry and disgusted.

She speaks openly to Harry and in front of Kreacher because she trusts them. Right now they're the only ones that she trust wholly and fully. She wants to trust Ginny but she's still not certain of that either, but she's trying.

About to ask for cake as well as Kreacher vanishes and then smiling widely when the cake is left with two forks.

"Thank you, Kreacher. I'm glad you're part of my home," she says, pausing though when she realizes what she has said. "I mean, it's the home I'm living in and..." She glances at Harry. "It's the only place that's felt like home," she admits.