Hermione felt like she was trapped in the Godric's Hollow house – getting cabin fever for the first time since she'd been travelling around searching for horcruxes, and living in that bloody tent with Harry and Ron. Draco was distracted – mending things between himself and Narcissa, and finally tentatively finding a place for himself in the Order, and Madeleine Dubois-Volkov turned out to be the answer to Hermione's nervous boredom. The Enseignante wanted someone skilled in potions to assist her in her work – her personal work, which she was continuing in a makeshift laboratory in cellar of the safehouse she was located at. It would be something to do at least; something to take her mind off the mission looming in front of her, and Hermione eagerly grabbed at the opportunity.