The next morning in the daily prophet there was an article about how Hogwarts had implemented the new Heritage Studies activity.  There were interviews about people's opinions on this, some good and some bad.  One said that this was a bad idea, because what if someone finds out they're related to a former Death Eater?  Another said that this is a good idea because it will teach children to embrace each other's past and not judge each other by their ancestors.

It was a very controversial topic throughout the Great hall that morning, and it being spoken about in classes made teaching very difficult for the professors.  Hermione still answered questions, as always, but was slightly distracted during classes thinking about the letter and what all this could mean.

After class that evening Hermione made for the library only to find a particular blonde Slytherin boy reading in her normal seat.  With books in hand, she stopped short, staring confusedly at Draco Malfoy.  After a moment, he spoke.

"Do you need something, Granger?  Or are you just admiring my beauty?"

"I- you're- but- wh-what?"  Hermione said, flustered.  She was caught of guard by his confident tone and very direct questioning of her.  She had, in fact, been noticing how smooth his hair looked, rather than the normal greasy appearance it had.

"Let me try this again," he said, looking up from his book.  "Why are you staring at me?"

"I'm just surprised to see you in the library," she said, and under her breath she added "in my spot."

"Ah."  After a moment when she still did not walk away, he continued.  "Well, what do you need?  Don't just stand there."  Malfoy said it in a way that wasn't mean, but was confused.  Then he stood and pulled another chair over next to his, moving his books to one side of the table so she could set hers down.  Then he gestured at the seat next to him, sitting back down.

Hermione sat cautiously, opening the book about Wizarding Bloodlines and Heritage Meanings, quickly immersing herself so it wouldn't be awkward around Malfoy.  However, for once, she couldn't focus on the words, instead focusing on the person next to her.  Finally, after giving it much thought, she asked Malfoy a question.

"Do you think it's strange?  That the Ministry comes out of nowhere with this new course and tells us to study our ancestors?"

He was silent for a moment before responding, "Yes."

After he didn't continue, she said,  "Well, I think they're after someone. Not here at Hogwarts, but that someone here knows of them and where they are. Bringing this program about gives the MoM an excuse to go through everyone's family tree."

"That's what I thought too.  But who could they be after?  It's not even been a year since the war and they're after another dark wizard?  I don't think that's what happening.  That's why I was thinking... well... never mind."  Draco stopped himself, afraid to be too open with Hermione.  He didn't trust her yet, and was fairly certain she didn't trust him.

"What?  What do you think?  Draco, this could be important, I need to know any other possibilities."

He didn't know why she sounded so worried, and hearing her say his first name took him by surprise, but hearing the despair in her voice made him tell her.  "Well, maybe they don't want us to be paying attention to our past bloodlines, but to our future bloodlines."

"You mean, like our children?  But why would they- wait.  Do they want to..." Hermione couldn't finish.  It was too horrible. 

"Yes.  I think that they want to control who we marry and have children with.  They want to control our bloodlines again."