Hermione was right. Days turned into weeks and weeks turned into a month. She was successfully doing her job in the Ministry, trusted with more and more important tasks. By August Alfred even asked Hermione to start preparing her project. She promised to take a look at it as soon as Hermione would be done with her current task. Eventually, she had to talk to Kingsley about why they weren’t appearing together in public any longer. He was extremely upset but couldn’t do anything about it.