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Chapter 8: Touch

General Summary:

Hermione consoles Ginny but eventually goes back to her dorm in early morning, stumbling upon Draco’s unconscious body at the door

She heals him and gives him Dreamless Sleep Potion because he is in a bleary state, and she ends up sleeping on the couch in the living room opposite to the couch she levitated him to

When he wakes up, they discuss the reason for his escape, which was his fear that if she didn’t come back and if something happened to McGonagall, he’d die there, to which she reminds him that the wards would drop if McGonagall died

While healing his injured hand, she notices his Dark Mark and realizes that he hadn’t been willing to take it, which explains the irritated skin around the Mark

She admits to healing him because she doesn’t quite hate him but he, working through odd feelings towards her, only says that he hates her “more and more each day”

Detailed Summary:

Hermione consoles Ginny through the night but doesn’t sleep at all, consumed with thoughts of her parents, Harry, Ron, and eventually Draco

She mentally remarks that she’s found him “more bearable” recently

She admits that she’s trying to “break his prejudices” and that even if it’s a fruitless task, “she’d try anyway; if only to erase the word Mudblood from his vocabulary.”

At 6:30 AM she decides to leave and go back to her own dorm, leaving Ginny a note

On her way in the entrance, she trips and falls over Draco who is still unconscious on the floor, and “look[s] dead”

He still has a pulse and she realizes that in her panic, she’d cried over him

She levitates him over to one of the couches and prepares to wake him up, but studies his features and finds herself entranced by him

“Some of the colour returned to his face as she grazed his skin, and she couldn't help herself as she brushed her thumb against his lower lip. He was...warmer than she'd expected...

She snatched her hand away and gave it a horrified glare. This was what insomnia did to her; messed with her brain and encouraged to do stupid and inappropriate things.”

She wakes him back up and shockingly, he puts his injured hand on her face for a moment, and then goes still and drops his hand, “simply staring at her with a blank expression”

She gets him Dreamless Sleep Potion, forcing him to take it since he’s shaking so badly that he can’t do it himself, and she cares for him, tucking him in with a blanket on the couch and watching over him to check that he’s alright

She washes his bloody handprint off her cheek and grabs a blanket from her bedroom to sleep on the couch across from him in the sitting room

Hermione wakes up before Draco and is looking at him when he wakes up

“She'd expected nothing but rage and embarrassment, but she saw only irritation and a hint of shame swirling in his rain-cloud eyes. The silence seemed to spark between them as the eye contact refused to shatter, and Hermione's voice found her before she could turn it away.”

She goes and sits on his couch by his feet and asks what he was thinking, to which he answers that she didn’t come back the night before

“"Nobody else knows I'm here." he hushed her, his words strained and quiet. "If something happens to you then I am royally fucked-”

“"McGonagall knows you’re here," Hermione pointed out. Her voice was soft and patient, as though she was comforting him, and Draco was too confused to be disgusted by it. Despite his best attempts to ignore it, there was something about Granger's proximity that steadied the remains of his tempestuous soul, and for the moment, he didn't want her to leave. Not yet.”

She says that if something happened to McGonagall, the wards would drop and he would be able to leave, and he feels silly for his dramatic reaction to her absence from the dorm

“"Why would you help me?" he asked her, narrowing his eyes into suspicious slits.

"Because you needed it," Hermione shrugged, as though it was nothing. "The wards are strong and dangerous, and you could have-

"You hate me," he hissed, perhaps more to himself than to her. "We loathe each other, Granger. Why the fuck would you-

"I don't...I don't think I really...hate you," she stuttered shyly, and Draco clamped his mouth shut with an audible snap. "Hate's a strong word. I would never wish anything fatal on you-”

She insists on looking at his injured hand and heals it, but as she’s doing so, she sees his Dark Mark, and though he tries to pull his arm away, she tightens her grip so that she can study it

She notices that the skin is “still raised and red with irritation” meaning that he hadn’t been willing to take the Mark

“"Your body rejected it because you didn't want it," she explained, gesturing to the inflamed skin around the tattoo-like symbol. "This would have calmed by now if you had been completely obedient."”

He gets pissed off because she’s right and he doesn’t like being analyzed but she manages to convince him to sit back down so that she can finish healing his hand, promising not to look at his Dark Mark

He finally goes back to his room but before he does, she asks how he feels about her now given their previous conversation when he first arrived and her admitting that she doesn’t hate him

“The question seemed to ring in his ears and stir memories of his obsession with her showers, and the almost civil talks that they'd accidentally stumbled into as of late. Did he hate her? Yes, just not in the same way. He hated her now for confusing him and screwing with his predefined perceptions of her. He hated her because she had somehow become borderline tolerable, but he hated her most because she made him think; made him question himself.

"Do I hate you?" he repeated with a flawless patronising snarl. "More and more each day."”

He goes back into his room before he can see her reaction and thinks about Hermione

“He'd been wrong; this was what he loathed most about her. She was polluting him like a blissful virus, infecting him inch by inch; sense by sense. He went through the motions in his head, listing her invasion of his senses. First it had been her smell, closely followed by her shower sounds. And then his eyes had come to acknowledge that she wasn't the ugly Muggle-spawn she was supposed to be. And now, he could feel her; her touch across his skin and her essence still waltzing in his veins from the day on the bathroom floor.

That was four; smell, sound, sight and touch. What was the fifth?

Oh yes. Taste.”

Chapter 7: Human

General Summary:

After he avoids Hermione for three days following the blood incident, Draco and Hermione finally run into each other when she’s sitting in the living room reading a book to distract herself from her fear of strong, stormy winds

They discuss the books by Muggle authors (including Shakespeare) that she left out for him and she challenges his beliefs that Muggles are barbaric

Eventually they both fall asleep on separate couches and when he wakes and feels soft towards her, he is revolted by himself

She suggests that he read Martin Luther King Jr.’s biography when he’s finished with his next read

Hermione receives a letter from Harry and Ron and stays the night with Ginny after bringing the letter to her for them to read together

Draco panics when she doesn’t return, thinking that he’s been stranded in the dorm, and he attempts an escape, badly injuring himself from the wards and passing out

Detailed Summary:

In the three days following the bloody hand incident, she doesn’t see Draco at all and she respects his privacy because of her guilt towards what she did

“She'd never, ever done anything so awful in her life; so wrong. She'd locked herself in her room no less than four times and broken down into uninhibited sobs, cradling her quaking frame.”

She sits in the living area of the dorm reading a book and trying to ignore the storm going on outside the Castle, revealing that she has a fear of harsh winds during storms that is unable to be remedied by Silencing charms

She comes to terms with staying up for the duration of the storm since she won’t be able to sleep, and stays in the sitting area, surprised when Draco comes in to get water

She asks him whether he’s still mad about the incident and he only asks why it matters to her, a question for which she doesn’t really have an answer

She gets up to make herself a hot chocolate and offers to make him one too, an offer he neither accepts nor declines, so she makes him one too

He says that he’ll drink it in his bedroom but she asks him to stay and sit with her to answer her question, but he gets annoyed at the idea that she is expecting him to answer the question

He asks why she wants him to join her anyways and infers that she’s afraid of the wind; he’s surprised that she would admit her fear

He eventually comes and sits with her as they drink their hot chocolate and discuss her fear, him mocking her for the fear and saying that he isn’t afraid of anything when she asks, calling it “human nature” to be fearful of something

In response to her question about his feelings towards the incident, he, in a roundabout way, essentially says that he’s forgetting about it, to which she replies that she’d “like to forget it” as well

They discuss the books she left for him, most of which were by Shakespeare, and all of which were by Muggles, a fact that he remarks did not escape his notice

She can’t believe that he would read them even after knowing they’re written by Muggles but he tells her that there was nothing else to read, keeping the detail about the quality of the writing to himself

“He'd intended to have the books feed his revulsion for Muggles, providing him with proof that they really were uncultured and uncivilised beings who would struggle to pen a decent paragraph.

But...

But it was actually okay...Good enough that he'd continued to turn the pages and be subconsciously impressed. It was so unnerving and sickening, and it had made him question...things. Only for a moment, but he had. No, he had never believed all that propaganda shit about Muggles being feral, but he'd been convinced on some level that they would be less able with the arts, but this Shake-something guy was...adequate. He couldn't very well tell Granger that though.”

They discuss the contents of the Titus Andronicus, one of the plays that he read, and they argue over Draco’s perception that it reinforces how “barbaric Muggles are”

Hermione provides examples of “mindless bloodshed” in Wizardkind, like Wizard Wars, Voldemort killing his family, and Crouch and his father, imploring him to really ask himself what about Muggles makes their “mindless bloodshed” any different

He awakes in the morning on one of the sofas, indicating that he fell asleep in the living area with her during the storm

Out of curiosity, he reaches for her wand to see if she’d been bluffing about the repelling charm that had been placed on it, but finds that she was telling the truth

He has a moment of softness towards Hermione that he shakes himself out of, revolted, slamming his bedroom door loud enough to wake her

He avoids her for four more days but eventually grows a craving for human interaction and conversation, even though he’s annoyed that it has to be her

He finally emerges from his room when she’s in the kitchen, and accidentally teases her though he means it to come out as an insult

They discuss books some more, and she suggests for him to read Martin Luther King Jr.’s biography when he’s finished with his next read, saying that she thinks he’ll find it interesting after he confirms that he “really believe[s] Purebloods to be superior to Muggle-borns”

Later, Hedwig delivers a letter to Hermione from Harry and Ron, and she goes to Ginny to make good on her promise that they would read all of the messages she received together

The letter is brief and devoid of detail, and Ginny asks Hermione to stay the night because she doesn’t want to be alone

In her absence, Draco starts to freak out, panicking that if she never comes back, that he could be “forgotten” and “alone” so he tries to escape, badly injuring himself from the wards placed on the door, and he passes out

Chapter 6: Tiles

General Summary:

Draco picks a fight with Hermione in the morning and runs into her in the bathroom after her shower so that they both fall down, and though they’re bickering the whole time, they have a playful water splashing fight on the floor of the bathroom

Draco immediately regrets it and is angry that he let himself be anything but mean to her so he waits all day for her to return so that he can return to normal

She’s late and when she comes back, she’s crying, but he pushes her anyways

In her anger, she cuts both of their hands and presses their bloody palms together in an act of revenge against his constant use of the Mudblood slur and to infect him with her “dirty blood”

He freaks out, she apologizes, and later on she goes into his room to explain that she was upset about the death of a friend, Professor Burbage, and that’s why she acted the way she did

She heals his cut and the next day, he finds that she’s left out new books for him to read

Detailed Summary:

Draco loses track of the days and since Hermione moving around the dorm always wakes him anyways, he starts waiting for her to get home (at some time before 3 AM) to try to go to bed

Every morning he wakes up to listen to her in the shower though he hates himself for it

“He was an addict, and he despised it.”

He decides to pick a fight with her and rushes at her when she’s leaving the bathroom, making the both of them fall into the bathroom

“He was suddenly aware of how strong her scent was in here; fresh and thick amongst the lingering steam. He couldn't help but take a deep breath, hoping to her it looked more like he was trying [to] control his anger. But fuck, it was intoxicating. It coiled itself around his tongue and he could actually taste her, but the cherry tang reminded him who it belonged to.”

They bicker, she splashes him with water, and when she tries to get up, he reaches for her ankle and makes her fall on the floor again

She notices that he’s bleeding and heals the cut, but she’s so close to him that he freaks out and yells at her to get away from him

“His Slytherin instincts flooded his mind like a defence mechanism, warning him she was far too close. She was doing it again; screwing with his head with gestures of kindness, and he refused to believe she didn't have an ulterior motive. Nobody could be that pure in the current climate; and it's not paranoia when you're on the enemy's territory.”

She’s completely confused by the interaction but thinks that things have been better since she’s been civil to him and taken her mother’s advice

She has a short chat with Neville during Charms class in which he notices that her mood has improved and is hopeful that she’s received news from Harry and Ron, but she informs him that she hasn’t

At the end of class, McGonagall comes to bring her to her office and says that she has bad news, though it doesn’t relate to Harry and Ron

Draco waits in the dorm for her to return and is annoyed that she’s late; he has the need to “rectify” the “mishap” in the bathroom earlier that day

When she finally comes back, she tries to ignore him but he crowds her and realizes that she’s crying, though he doesn’t stop in his interrogation on why she was late

He mocks her crying though inwardly he’s unsettled by it

He blocks the entrance to her bedroom, grabs her wrist before she can reach for her wand, and asks her (aggressively) why she’s crying, but he doesn’t restrain her other hand which punches him, and then she hexes him

“He knew he'd pushed her too far, it was so glaringly obvious in her enraged stance and the uncontrollable spark in her glare. She was just one snarky comment away from bursting at the seams, and every instinct was screaming at him to heed the foreboding angle of her wand. But his inner-Slytherin reminded him of his pathetic and laughable behaviour towards Granger in the last few days, and the familiar insult just stumbled out of his mouth so easily.”

He calls her a Mudblood and in her anger, she cuts both of their palms with her wand and then presses their hands together so that their blood mixes

“The worst thing was he couldn't distinguish her blood from his. It was all the same shade...and he had no idea what that meant.”

She immediately apologizes, the two of them frozen, and he freaks out, calls her a “crazy bitch” and goes back into his room, telling her to stay away from him

She breaks down sobbing and he is surprised that, hearing her crying through the door, he feels guilty, and he realizes that he doesn’t hate her

“He shuttered his eyes, wondering why the hell he suddenly felt guilty. He should have been roaring with rage and scheming to cause her pain in return for what she had done, but all he could do was question what had made her snap. He wanted to despise her; to charge back in there and bask in her distress.

But he didn't.

He didn't hate her.”

Hermione spends roughly three hours crying, and after she finally stops, she heals her hand and cleans the bathroom, and she’s desperate to explain herself to Draco

She goes into his room even though he tells her to get out and crawls onto his bed in an effort to get him to listen to her

She apologizes and explains that she found out that Voldemort killed one of her friends, Professor Burbage, and she took out her emotions on Draco unfairly

He basically says that if she ever does something like that in the future, he’ll make her regret it, and that he won’t be stuck with her forever so he will remember everything she does for when he is out and has his wand back

Before she leaves, she forces him to let her heal his hand, and while she’s healing him, she notices that all he’s been reading are the old textbooks of hers

“He looked down and ghosted his fingers across his freshly-healed skin, finding no evidence that she had ever torn open his flesh.

He was adamant he could feel her though; coursing through his bloodstream, and he blamed the invisible flames of her essence for his inability to catch sleep until dawn broke. “

She finally leaves his room and the next afternoon, after she’s already gone, he finds that she has left him new books that he hasn’t read before

Chapter 5: Scent

General Summary:

Hermione tries giving Draco the silent treatment as a means of combating his arguments with her and he throws a temper tantrum

In the middle of his hissy fit, she realizes that he hasn’t been eating anything because he doesn’t know how to cook without magic

She starts making food and leaving it out for him, and he starts reading her books, though he avoids her for the entire weekend

He starts listening to Hermione in the shower instead of trying to ignore her

He finds her allergy shots for her bee sting allergy in a drawer in the kitchen and learns about her allergy

Detailed Summary:

“Every day she came back to her dorm, and he was there. Ready to drill her brain with insults and complaints, and it was starting to suck the life out of her. She would finish her lessons and return to the Head Girl dorm to complete her homework, knowing the library would be too packed until about eight in the evening, and he was always there. Just waiting; his tongue damp and prepared to goad her into arguments that could last for minutes or hours, depending entirely on how stubborn they both were.”

They continue to argue and fight, but Hermione is able to fight back with hits just as strong as his

She remembers her mother’s advice to simply not react in the face of a bully, and decides to test the theory on Draco and just ignore him trying to get a rise out of her

Draco’s counting is at an obsessive level— he counts titles and cracks, as well as floorboards, and we learn that it’s now been eight days since his arrival at Hogwarts

He admits that his one activity for the day is waiting for Hermione to get back so that he can argue with her

“He left bed, changed, and went in search of something to do. To count. Just until Granger got back and they could have their usual battle of wits.”

He remarks that her scent is everywhere, but doesn’t think that it’s unpleasant, though he does think it’s making him go crazy a bit

When Hermione returns to the dorm, she doesn’t engage with him and he immediately gets frustrated and tries to get a reaction from her

“The silent treatment, a challenge. Okay, he could play with that. She would react eventually. She had to. He'd waited for the spark in her eyes and the sharp retorts for over an hour. He wanted them. Thrived on them, actually.”

She still refuses to engage but as she’s looking at him throwing a hissy fit, she realizes that he looks ill and weak and she has the thought that maybe he hasn’t been eating

She goes into the kitchen and realizes that he’s only been eating apples, milk, and cereal and understands after a moment that it’s because he doesn’t know how to cook without magic

She feels guilty over the fact that he hasn’t been eating but he gives her shit for it and storms away

In the safety of his room, Draco regards Hermione’s sympathy towards him as “a new low”, but a while later, after he hears her leave, he realizes that she made food

He eats everything that she made but afterwards realizes that he’s already counted everything in the dorm, so finally succumbs to reading one of her books

Hermione has a training session with McGonagall, and at the end of it, McGonagall questions her about Draco and how things are coming along

Hermione tells McGonagall about the fights but that she believes she can handle him

McGonagall reminds her about Draco being forced into his Death Eater role and Hermione wonders why Draco didn’t succeed in killing Dumbledore

“"Maybe the only important thing is that he didn't do it," McGonagall offered, her thick accent rich with a wisdom and age that Hermione always found enlightening. "And I would recommend that you focus on that for the rest of his stay."”

That night when she returns to the dorm, she is pleasantly surprised to find that Draco ate the food that she prepared

The weekend passes and Draco continues to have nightmares, eat Hermione’s meals, and read her books, though he avoids seeing her completely

On Monday morning, he can hear Hermione in the shower again, but instead of trying to go back to sleep and grow frustrated with her, he sits at the wall that separates his room from the bathroom and listens

He finally emerges from his room to find another meal left out for him, and as he’s going to grab a fork, he encounters medical supplies of hers

Hermione comes back while he’s still in the kitchen but he notices something different about her, but he can’t figure out what

They bicker, as usual, but she points out that she noticed that some of her books were missing and says that she doesn’t mind that he took them though she wishes he had asked for her permission first

She asks for his opinion on her cooking and he calls it “satisfactory” which makes her smile

He asks her about the medical supplies that he found in the kitchen and learns that they’re allergy shots for her allergy to bee stings

The next morning, Draco again listens to Hermione in the shower

Chapter 4: Score

General Summary:

Draco continues to be bored and count in the absence of nothing else to do

Hermione eats a meal with her friends but she is noticeably quiet and distracted and eventually leaves for the library, which turns out to be too crowded for her liking

She returns back to the dorm and gets into a fight with Draco that touches on topics that strike a nerve in both of them; for him, his father, and for her, Harry and Ron and their absence from Hogwarts for the year

Detailed Summary:

Draco wakes from a dream about the Astronomy Tower and ruminates on his thoughts of himself as a failure

He recalls that he had originally woken up to the sounds of Hermione in the shower and moving about the dorm but had fallen back to sleep, and now when he awakes once more, she’s gone

In her absence, he goes to the kitchen and eats a bowl of cereal, unable to cook anything else for himself without magic

He tests the wards on the door and finds that he’s hit with sparks if he so much as touches the main door to leave

In his boredom, he moves on from counting Hermione’s books to counting the tiles in the dorm’s kitchenette

Hermione is in the Great Hall for a meal with Neville, Ginny, Luna, Seamus, and Dean when Neville comments on her quietness and she lies that she’s working on an essay

She finds herself feeling isolated from her friends, as they mostly ignore the topics of Voldemort and the War, topics that she is unable to ignore

Hermione notes that only 32 out of the 152 students that returned to Hogwarts were Slytherins, all fourth-years or younger, and none of them opt to sit at the Slytherin table

Hermione makes an early exit to the library after barely eating or engaging with her friends, but finds that there are too many students in the library for her to find the peace that she seeks

Though she doesn’t want to engage with Draco, she returns to the dorm because she doesn’t want to be forced from her living space just because of his presence there

“Well, she was not going to be exiled from her own room because of that bastard. She refused. Why should she have to alter her routine just because of Malfoy? If the slimy prat played up, she could just lock him in his bedroom.”

Hermione stumbles upon Draco counting tiles and when she interrupts him, he gets angry and picks a fight with her

Their argument touches on the topics of his anger that she’s returned back to the dorm, his opinions on Gryffindors, and Harry and Ron

She throws a mug at him and in the heat of the fight, admits that Harry and Ron aren’t at Hogwarts, a fact that he has fun tormenting her with

She takes control of the fight and talks about how it “must be difficult” for him to “[watch] the people [he] deem[s] inferior doing so much better than [him]” and strikes a nerve

“She had done it. She had managed to get him to leave her alone without using magic. Hermione fell back into the couch and felt a proud giggle shimmy up her windpipe. She had beaten him, despite her earlier troubles when he had decided to bring the boys into the argument. She'd had the last word. She'd gotten what she wanted.”

Draco, having gone back into his room, starts a scoreboard for their fights on his headboard and gives them scores according to the results of their previous fights

Then, he goes back to counting

Chapter 3: Doors

General Summary:

Hermione and Draco fight about the amount of noise she makes in the dorm and she scorches him with her wand before leaving to research Horcruxes in the library for the entirety of the day, only returning after midnight

While she is gone, Draco goes through the clothing that McGonagall provided for him and, in his boredom, sets to counting things in the dorm, starting with her books

Upon her return, Draco picks another fight with her that leads to them both ranting about their true (nasty) opinions of one another until Hermione magically throws him into a wall and goes to her bedroom

Detailed Summary:

Hermione wakes after only 3 hours of sleep, hoping that the previous night was nothing more than a nightmare

She takes a shower and tries to relax

Draco wakes to the sound of a “feminine moan” coming from Hermione in the shower

Draco attempts to escape the room, first by trying to shove open the window in his room and then by trying to punch the glass, both of which fail

“Yes, definitely trapped. Definitely his new prison.”

He tries to go back to sleep and muffle the sounds of Hermione in the shower

After Hermione’s shower, she answers the door to the dorm where Dobby has a large trunk, and asks him to prepare extra food for her to pick up later

She levitates the trunk to outside of Draco’s door after Dobby is gone, and Draco comes out of his room to complain about how much noise Hermione makes, to which she replies by slamming all the doors in the dorm using magic

“She backed up against the wall and raised her wand, but he didn't cease his long strides. "Don't come near me!"

"As if I would fucking touch you," he growled, stopping only when the end of her wand prodded his chest. "I would sooner die-”

They argue about her noise-making and after he calls her a Mudblood she tries to punch him again but he grabs her wrist to stop her

She tells him to let her go, and when he doesn’t, she lifts her wand to his throat to threaten him, but he only tells to go ahead, and so she does

“"Go ahead, Granger."

And it was his confidence that rattled her the most; that stirred her magic to pour out of her wand and scorch his skin.”

Hermione changes and leaves the dorm for the library and runs straight into Neville in the hallway

She and Neville chat about how he, Ginny, and Luna miss her, and she agrees to meet them for dinner later that day

Hermione goes to her reading spot in the Restricted Section to continue her research on Horcruxes and hopes to distract herself from Draco’s intrusion into her life

Draco unpacks the trunk that Dobby brought and finds clothing for him to wear

He misses his wand and grows bored immediately, though he refuses to go near Hermione’s books as an escape to his boredom because he doesn’t want to touch her things

Hermione doesn’t leave the library until after midnight, having skipped lunch with her friends and taken the extra food she’d requested from Dobby in its and her dinner’s place

She returns to the dorm, puts away the food, and begins to make tea but jumps and spills the tea when she realizes that Draco is hovering nearby

In his boredom, he’d decided to pick a fight with her upon her return

He again commands her to put a silencing spell on his room so he doesn’t have to hear her making noise but she refuses under the reasoning that she doesn’t want to waste her magic on him

In their fight, he goads her into ranting about her true feelings towards him, which are nothing but negative, and he erupts in anger when she brings his father into the conversation

He forces her to hear his opinion about her, which is, predictably, scathing, and in response she magically slams him into a wall and then goes back into her bedroom

He resumes his task of boredom: counting the books in her room

In Hermione’s room, she cries under the safety of a silencing charm so that he will not hear her

Chapter 2: Punch

General Summary:

Snape leaves and Draco is now in the care of McGonagall

Hermione is informed of the situation with Draco and argues but agrees once McGonagall reminds her of the sacrifice that Dumbledore made to help protect Draco

They go to Hermione’s room where McGonagall sets up wards to prevent Draco from leaving, and adds a password to Hermione’s bedroom so that he can’t enter

Detailed summary:

Snape compliments Hermione’s dueling skills to McGonagall

Snape leaves, thus abandoning Draco to be stranded at Hogwarts

“"I have no expectations of you at all, Mr Malfoy," she told him with genuine disappointment. "Your constant failure to do anything worthwhile has destroyed any confidence I may have had in you."”

Draco is secretly hurt by McGonagall calling him a failure, though he believes it is the truth

Draco expresses no gratitude for his situation, mentally referring to Hogwarts as a “shithole”

Draco is secretly apprehensive to be stranded in a place where people want him dead and remarks that at least Snape “had been bound by a Vow to protect him”

McGonagall lets Hermione out of the closet and releases the charmed ropes around her after telling her to calm down

Hermione still does not notice Draco’s presence in the office and questions why Snape was there

McGonagall asks her to promise not to tell anyone what she is about to reveal to her, not even Harry or Ron

Hermione notices Draco and immediately punches him in the face, only to be restrained by McGonagall with charmed ropes again

“She felt a feral growl vibrate in her throat, and drew her fist back again, the blood slithering down his chin and across her fingers no where near satisfying enough. She wanted to pound his face until it was unrecognisable, until it stopped reminding her of what he'd done.”

McGonagall reveals that Snape is a spy for the Order and orders Draco out of the room and to the kitchen so that she can discuss the situation with Hermione

McGonagall explains Snape’s and Dumbledore’s agreement for Snape to complete Draco’s task if Draco could not

McGonagall informs Hermione that Draco will be staying with her, to Hermione’s immediate distress and argument

“The urge to scream at him until his ears wept blood swamped her, but she shoved it aside. Something twigged in her head, and she realised then that she had a massive advantage over him. She had her wand. She was in control.”

McGonagall, Hermione, and Draco walk to her dorm and McGonagall sets up wards around the dorm to prevent Draco from being able to leave, as well as adds a password to Hermione’s bedroom to prevent Draco from entering it

Draco takes a shower and they both go off to bed without any more interaction

Chapter 1: Haven

General summary:

October 1, 1997, beginning of Hermione’s 7th year at Hogwarts

Hermione is Head Girl

Draco has been in hiding in Scotland with Snape

Snape brings Draco to Hogwarts to implore McGonagall to allow him refuge, and though it takes convincing, she agrees on his conditional stay

One of her terms is that Draco will stay with Hermione, something that he vehemently opposes but is forced to accept since he has no other options

Detailed summary:

Begins October 1, 1997 (5 months after Dumbledore’s death)

A quarter of the student body returns to Hogwarts for Hermione’s 7th year

Harry and Ron are off on the Horcrux hunt without her (at Lupin’s suggestion)

Hermione remains at Hogwarts to help McGonagall keep Hogwarts safe

Other Order members at Hogwarts: Ginny, Seamus, Dean

Hermione is Head Girl

Michael Corner (Ravenclaw) is Head Boy

Snape (forcibly) brings Draco back to Hogwarts

Draco still steadfastly believes in blood supremacy (he calls Snape “blood traitor scum”)

Snape and Draco have been hidden in Scotland since Snape killed Dumbledore to fulfill Snape’s Unbreakable Vow with Narcissa Malfoy to keep Draco safe

Both sides want Draco dead

“What a shit week. Shit month. Shit year.”

Slughorn finds Hermione studying at 2 AM in the library and informs her that she has been summoned to McGonagall’s office

Snape argues with McGonagall about allowing Draco to stay at Hogwarts and reminds her of how Dumbledore tried to protect Draco himself, thus succeeding in convincing her

Draco has not had proper accommodations or sufficient food in a long time

McGonagall agrees to allow Draco to stay at Hogwarts but only under certain conditions

If he breaks any rules, he will be thrown out

He is not allowed to have his wand

He cannot attend classes

He cannot leave the room he is given

If he leaves Hogwarts he is not allowed to return

McGonagall decides he will stay with Hermione because she, nor the other professors, have the time to deal with Draco

Draco is not pleased with the idea, calling Hermione a Mudblood (several times), for which he is reprimanded by McGonagall

By the time Hermione arrives at McGonagall’s office, Snape is still there and she attempts to hex him, though he easily blocks her

Hermione doesn’t yet notice that Draco is there

McGonagall restrains her with charmed ropes and shuts her into a closet

“"Well," he commented, his voice raspy at the back of his throat, but still rich with surplus sarcasm. "That went well."”

Isolation (bexchan)

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Below find links to each chapter's summary.

(So far I am only up to summarizing chapter 7 but more will be added over time)

Chapter 1: Haven

Chapter 2: Punch

Chapter 3: Doors

Chapter 4: Score

Chapter 5: Scent

Chapter 6: Tiles