Hermione had been naturally stung and hurt about the moratorium on using her wand – before, her parents had been nothing but proud of her when she would read aloud spells from her schoolbooks at home. But she had put her foot down on being separated from Ron. Daddy had nearly gone through the roof at that one: "I will not have my little "Mione shacking up and sleeping with some gangly orangutan of a bloke in some seaside resort!"