She can't feel nervous around Neville, not like she does around his grandmother, or even his mother, because they've known each other longer and because she knows that Neville is not an asshole.

Unlike most of their peers, he comes from an old family but does not believe that he should never be bested by anyone who is not of noble or pure descent. Hermione's first reason for having said yes to the job in the first place had been the fact that she'd been friends with Neville. If he turned out so nice, there was no way his family were monsters or bigots.

"I've been well, thank you," she answers, then adds a very melodramatic: "My Lord." Because he went from calling her Hermione in school to this sudden distinction of Miss Granger, when only two years ago they were chopping up frog legs together? It's just silly.

"How was your last year?"