Well, there it its. So she had been about to die - and such an accusation to make. Publicly. Rather than focusing on what Burbage might do to him, Snape's eyes flicker toward Stephanie when she moves. He notes the way she tenses, and though he doesn't know whether she has a concealed weapon, he suspects.

"I wouldn't," he warns quietly, ignoring Charity for the moment and mindful that Baedal is probably watching. There is an almost imperceptible movement of his hand, an angling upward of the wand to point in Stephanie's direction. And that's all the warning he gives her before slowly tearing his eyes off of her and glancing down at his old colleague.

"You've been abducted. So have we all." Dismissive and cold. She's injured, and first concerns should be preventing her from meeting the same fate she had three years before.