Either way, it hurts. Because against all odds, it’s Malfoy who has turned up and not Harry or Ron, or really even any other random auror in the Order. She’d eventually expected nothing after the initial flint of hope dwindled away when the 120th hour passed. But the aftermath of standing in Malfoy’s shadow when it could have someone else—someone who at least tolerated her and wasn’t a turned Death Eater, or even related to the one whose basement she’d been locked in—is not easy to come to terms with. 