When she allowed herself to stop and think over the choices she had willingly made in the past, it was easy to hate the person she became. A great number of people that she knew from her former life might make the assumption that she was forced to become a Death Eater against her will. They quite simply had no idea. No one, not even the Dark Lord's prized captives Hermione Granger and Ronald Weasley, was ever forced to pledge their complete and undying loyalty to their master. Left arms were not Marked if the owner wasn't one hundred percent positive that they wanted the Mark. At any single moment in her past before she extended her arm for the final test of her loyalty, Hermione could've said no. She could have refused to be branded. So could Ron.