During all that time, she rarely saw Malfoy and when she did, he was usually too busy talking to a blonde witch from Beauxbatons to notice her. According to Lavender, he and Parkinson were in an "off-phase’ and the female student was Margaux Guillaume, heiress to a French pureblood family and daughter of a rather important politician, with a mother who was well known as a designer. They looked striking together and the first time she had seen Malfoy lower his head to kiss Margaux, making the witch give a breathy little sigh, Hermione had felt an odd tug in her chest.