The next day Draco knocked on her bedroom door before breakfast and said a stilted sorry, face pale and set and still angry and resentful beneath the surface, and instead of accepting his apology Hermione yelled at him for a good ten minutes about being a selfish, thoughtless, arsehole – loud enough for the rest of the house to hear it out her open bedroom door. He opened his mouth to yell right back, and then snapped it shut, and with visible effort said: