Hermione had tried to be angry at Ginny for leaving like that, but she couldn’t remain angry. After all the war had changed the dynamics for her relationship with Ron as well. She loved Ron with the innocence of her first love. But they had too much of shared history between them, too many disappointments. She could forgive Ron as a friend for leaving her at the forest last year. But her heart just couldn’t love someone who would leave her. Her parents always said that a person showed their true self during the hour of crisis. Ron had shown that at the first touches of fight, he would leave. True, he did come back. True, he hadn’t left since then. But those few months he was gone was engraved in pain in her heart. Hermione was loyal, first and foremost. Yes, she had the brains, but that alone would have put her in Ravenclaw. She was fiercely loyal to the people she loved, and it tore her apart to think someone she loved wouldn’t return that loyalty. So as gently as she could, she had broken things off with Ron, before it got out of hand.