"I'm going home," Hermione says softly, and forces herself to stand straighter – shoulders back and chin up. That helps a little – she looks more plain exhausted now than she does cowed. She doesn't want to go back looking like a broken shell of herself, because she isn't – she survived this, and while she may be damaged and changed, she is not broken. But Harry and Ron and all the others will all look at her and see only her trauma, if she doesn't force them to see otherwise. She knows that from past experience, from seeing the way they looked at people who had been rescued – and looking at them that way herself. With pity. And Hermione doesn't ever want Harry and Ron to look at her that way.