"Sorry," he said, with that unwilling edge to his voice that his apologies almost always had, like they were being dragged out of him, even over such simple little apologies as this one. Most people would throw out a "sorry" without even thinking about it, but not Draco – no, he tore it out of himself almost against his will, and Hermione thought that it actually made his apologies mean more, in a strange kind of way. She knew he hated saying sorry, and yet he did anyway, for her.