Hermione looked at the clock hours later- 8:52pm. She scrubbed at her gritty eyes. She had thrown herself into her work to keep from dwelling on breakfast. She'd blown through lunch and dinner. The charge nurse on the pediatric floor had sent a house elf with food from the cafeteria when she had peeked in and found Hermione up to her eyeballs in books and parchment. She had been researching curse interactions this week, even before the Malfoys had showed up at the hospital. 