Her mind flashes and flickers before she remembers everything coherently. He had gone out shortly before she'd gone to bed. There had been a revel planned, which Malfoy had told her about over dinner earlier in the night. Voldemort had apparently told Malfoy to bring Hermione to it, and he'd made excuses to Voldemort – said that she wasn't up to the task, as he'd been rather too rough on her the night before. Which had put a mental image in Hermione's head that had made her feel sick – but besides that she had also been worried that Malfoy would get in trouble for not giving Voldemort what he'd wanted. '