Knowing that she couldn't spend the rest of her life hiding away in her room in the Three Broomsticks, Hermione made the decision to step outside of it for the first time since her meeting with Rodolphus. Just in time to order a late breakfast from one of the witches behind the bar, she found a table in the opposite corner of the room from where Thorfinn was seated. Even though it was still morning, he was already drinking. She worried that he wasn't actually playing a part at all. Or maybe he was playing it too well. There was a great deal of pain in that wizard that broke her heart as well. She didn't think he would ever recover from Hannah's death, not completely. Never again would he be the carefree, overgrown child who was always so quick to laugh. Just as the better parts of Hermione died in her broom cupboard, the better parts of Thorfinn died with his wife.