She noticed her husband paying close attention to the two young girls during the meal. When he would look into Lizzie's direction, there was a subtle hardening of his features. Not a single word came out of her mouth the entire meal, a fact that struck Hermione as particularly odd. Was she nervous to be around them again? Or had she been warned to keep quiet by her parents? Even that seemed unlikely because she wasn't exactly the sort of girl that minded her parents" wishes at all times. There was a dangerous streak of rebellion inside of her that would need to be dealt with before she was a teenager.