Malfoy chuckled quietly into his hand beside her, she didn't have to look at him to know a smirk coated his perfect bloody features. Slughorn stood from his chair and welcomed them all to his first "Slug Club’ dinner party. She found it hard to focus on his words after that, as the intoxicating smell of her potential Soulbond surrounded her in a haze. Ginny sat across the table on Luna's left and Hermione noted dimly that she seemed to have the same blank look on her face that Hermione sensed was on hers. She looked at Luna and discovered the girl staring longingly over at something behind Theo, completely unaware of what Slughorn was saying. Hermione picked up her new wine glass and drank half in one go, feeling the pinch of social anxiety that sometimes reared its ugly head at such events. Her vision started feeling murky around the edges, her peripherals seemed to darken with maroon shades, her head definitely full of wrackspurts now - as was Ginny and Lunas it seemed.