"No one except them knows exactly what happened when they were camping during the war, but Hermione has never gotten over what she and her ex friends saw and experienced during the war. For them to throw those already raw feelings back in her face in the shape of a marriage law is kind of a low blow." says her longtime friend Neville Longbottom. It was obviously not the end of the world for the war heroine however, as her friends all assured the author that she is indeed very happy as Lady Malfoy.