Hermione dug her nails into the couch. She had to stay put. It is a fake marriage. He’s not bound to her by any means. But there was something deeply humiliating and aggravating about it. He was flirting with Astoria right in front of her friends. In front of the whole club, for Merlin’s sake. Hermione tried to explain her feelings but deep inside she knew that this wasn’t about other people seeing or keeping up an image for the press.