While Hermione had to learn to navigate a completely different kind of relationship with her former teacher when she was ordered to marry him, Augustus had to learn how to exist with a woman who not only reviled him, but also taught their children to fear and hate him. The years had not been kind to either of them. Violetta Rookwood would rather die a painful death than to embrace her disgraced husband as she had when they were newlyweds. Only her fear of the Dark Lord allowed Augustus inside her home.