The reality of their situation would usually come out at night in the frame of nightmares which tortured them both. Hermione’s nightmare were more frequent and more vivid, but they usually involved obscure things she couldn’t name and forgot them almost immediately upon waking up while Draco’s were sporadic and so violent that he thrashed violently in his sleep, Hermione had a hard time waking him up, and whenever he did, he spent the rest of the night up, staring and the ceiling, and Hermione, in turn, would stay awake with him.