Over the years that she was in the Inner Circle of the Death Eaters, there had been only a handful of times that Hermione was forced to be in the same room with Violetta Rookwood. If it had been left up to Augustus" estranged wife, they would've never met. She would've preferred that her wretch of a husband remain in England as far away from the home she'd created with some of her distant relatives in France. The pain and humiliation of uncovering her husband's traitorous activities so many years earlier had been difficult for the horrid woman to bear. Hermione felt a modicum of sympathy for what the woman likely had to endure. That is, she did up until the point where the harridan referred to her as her "husband's little whore'. Any opportunity that the women would find common ground after that moment became impossible.