And Hermione was hit with such a sensation as she sat there, melting together with Harry on their shared seat, that she felt full up with happiness. They were together, almost alone in this mass of people, but joined together as one. Dressed alike, sat so impossibly close that they were indistinguishable as separate entities, being loved and well-wished not as Harry and Hermione but as a couple, joined by love, on the brink of an unbreakable union.