Hermione missed Harry's birthday and it was close to a week later before Tonks came to tell her, that she could return to the Burrow in a few days. Hermione spent her last few days with Andromeda and Ted mostly swimming, practising her Patronus (which she had mastered almost to perfection) and reading her mother's books. She had only taken four of them and had already read them twice. She had only indulged in her arousal once more because the morning after her wrist had pained her terribly and she cursed the Death Eater Avery for stepping on her hand.