So, as she stood, pondering the stalemate they seemed to have reached in this scenario that guaranteed nothing other than mutually assured destruction, she wondered about these "sessions’ Malfoy was having. Occlumency was a difficult craft, for him to have hidden away entire memories, essential to his being, would be utterly destructive. Hermione couldn’t fathom what horrors he’d seen or heard to give him cause to hide behind walls for over a year. 