Later she learned many things, but she never completely understood. Hermione is thrown headfirst into a Death Eater plot, and one of them knows her weaknesses. LMHG, oneshot, a little surreal... recently edited just to look a little better.

When she first meets Kingsley Shacklebolt, Hermione knows he is a dangerous man

Kingsley Shacklebolt, Auror and Order member, is a man of deep integrity. He lives by the rules, knows right from wrong, and has never been tempted to stray. Until he starts lusting after a teenage witch, that is. Tonks had always warned him that his self-denying righteousness would make him snap one day. [1/2015: Not Abandoned! Read Profile Notes and 'Coward' prequels].