Frowning immediately, Hermione rhetorically asked, "Why is it that no one knows how to treat people who are different? It doesn't matter what their parentage are; people are still people." She had a tendency of going off on very long rants when it came to this sort of topic, and so she had to force herself to stop before she got ahead of herself.

Instead, she focused on what she was being told, and she tilted her head, sympathetic as she told her, "I'm sorry to hear that. What sort of siege are you under?"