What should have been a fairly straightforward and innocuous question caught Hermione completely off guard. She hadn't told anyone in the village what she had done to her husband when she ran away from Hogsmeade. Even when she was staying in the Jordan home in Wales she hadn't divulged that awful story. It wasn't common knowledge. Any news of a high-ranking Death Eater being attacked and almost killed by another would have been immediately covered up. If there was even a hint of dissension in the ranks, their regime could become a target. They had to remain a united front. A salacious story of a wife stabbing her husband in the eye with a fork and then almost murdering him with a kitchen knife would've shown weakness.