As much as she might not have cared to know about it, Hermione had a bit of a reputation within Hogsmeade amongst the so-called lesser class that surrounded Lord Voldemort and his most trusted followers. Mudbloods had almost no worth in the society that they'd built beyond manual labor and the most arduous and distasteful of tasks. It rankled their nerves that someone with so little worth because of the accident of her birth should be afforded the respect she was simply because of the wizard who owned the house she slept in. There was severe resentment in some of them. Without the protection of her powerful master, she would be less than the mangy dogs that wandered between the buildings looking for scraps.