Augustus wasn't prepared to join in the celebration with his old friend. Not until he could understand why the man was so excited to begin with. Hermione assumed that his confusion had something to do with the fact that he spent most of the last twenty years tucked away in France. He hadn't been affected like the rest of them who remained. Up until the day that he was recalled from France a few weeks earlier, supposedly by the ailing Dark Lord, he'd only come back for a few days or weeks at a time for over thirteen years. Once his request to marry Hermione was denied, he was shipped off to France to serve as something like an ambassador for the regime. He hadn't even been a part of her life again until she was on the run from Antonin. There was still a great deal he had to learn about what he missed out on.