She felt lightheaded and giddy from the attention. How many times since she was ordered to marry Antonin and Augustus was ordered to seek out his estranged wife had she dreamed of this moment happening again? Though she hadn't been faithful to her husband in the slightest once her son was born, she never once even entertained the possibility of carrying their relationship on behind their spouses" backs. Not only because he was in another country most of the time, but Hermione knew that her heart couldn't bear the strain of the promise of something that would never come to be. It was too difficult to pretend like they were together when they could never be.