"I – I'm the son of a...Merlin. I was before, I know. But – Pansy? She was my girlfriend. I cared about her – I still do. It makes it all real, somehow. It sounds awful; it is awful, but before everything, when it was prisoners and Muggles I could pretend – pretend that it was normal. It was something that I knew was inevitable, even though it was horrible." Draco said it without thought of how mentioning Pansy as his girlfriend might affect Hermione, and realised only once the words were already out. But she just pressed her cheek to his shoulder a little harder, and handed the bottle back to him.