Hermione met her best friends’ eyes, and took a deep breath.  She smiled nervously.  "Well, as you know, I may have slipped my security detail one July afternoon.  I went to the Burrow where the Weasleys were preparing for their oldest son, Bill, to get married.  On August 1st, 1997, they had the wedding at the Burrow.  We’d gotten to the reception when a patronus appeared and alerted us that the Ministry had fallen to Voldemort and the Death Eaters, and that the previous Minister was dead."