He'd given her ample time to come to him. She'd hoped to avoid him until his defeat in "45 but instead she'd inadvertently chosen his adversaries right in front of him. He wouldn't forgive that, and she imagined he might force Queenie to kill her. Hermione had grown to like Queenie quite a bit, and her stomach turned at the thought of what having to fight her friend for her life would do to her.