Hermione had no legal recourse to protest. Not that anyone would have listened to her. King Voldemort had enforced a raft of laws that made witches like her the property of their wedded Lords. She might as well have appealed for justice to a tree, for all the good it would have done. The Death Eaters of the legal courts would turn any complaint she made into an act of treason against the Dark King and his "reforms'. They'd sooner burn her at the stake, like poor Hannah Abbott, than bring her husband to heel.