That Friday evening, Hermione ignored Ron again in the common room. She didn’t once look or speak to him the entire week since their "tiff’- no, since he had groped her. He was seated on the floor near the fireplace with Dean Thomas and Seamus Finnigan. The three passed around a flask while a game of wizarding chess took place between them. As Hermione walked by, she could hear the boys suddenly start whispering. She could make out bits and pieces of their words; Seamus had said something in a girly voice that sounded like "I’m freezing," to which they all roared in laughter.