After Hermione had accepted her Order of Merlin in a private ceremony in Kingsley Shacklebolt’s office, she and Snape had gone through with their plans and left the country, settling down in house in Southern France. They still had the Daily Prophet delivered at Snape’s insistence that "it is better to keep one’s enemy closer’. And although it had been nearly a year since the last time she had seen Albus Dumbledore, her blood still boiled with anger every time there was so much as a mention of him. Still, she was resolved to ignore him, for the man hardly warranted a moment of her attention.