The day after the dinner and the torture, and the night spent curled in Malfoy's arms, Hermione shuts herself in the bathroom. She stays in there all day, crying and raging, and scrubbing herself raw – until blood blossoms in pinpricks under her skin and the cuts inflicted on her open up again, staining the bathwater pink. When Malfoy tries to speak to her through the door and persuade her to come out, to let him help, she screams at him, incoherent and furious and full of blame. His coaxing only results in the shampoo bottle becoming a missile, hurled at the door and breaking into shards of lead cut glass. Hermione sits in the cooling, murky pink bathwater and cries, arms wrapped around her knees and face buried in the hollow between her knees and body.