                Though her case had most certainly been reduced to a bodice-ripper romance novel, it was more likely that her act of necromancy and the  Retinacula ritual was causing the delays. If the public found out that she’d brought a dead man back to life, there would be outrage. A demand that the details be released so others could do as she did. On the flip side, there were surely those proclaiming her a wielder of dark magic. She had used a highly illegal ritual on Ministry property without a care in the world...who was to say what else Hermione Granger might do?