She could see the image of Snape painful swim into her tear- soaked vision, "This stupid Mudblood was always painfully mundane", his long fingers struggled to capture enough of her sheared-cut hair to get a satisfactory grip forcing her head to the side to make painful eye-contact with her tormentor. The entire endeavour was made even more painful as the collar on her neck offered the opposite pressure keeping her pinned back. In the withering tones he had previously reserved for chastising Neville he laid down the truth Hermione had been dreading "Get this into your thick muggle skull, no more magic for you, verbal or non-verbal", he emphasised his point by knocking painfully on the captive’s skull, treating her like she was an imbecile, letting her head slam to headrest on the chair a final time.