Hermione was about to walk through the open grand doors but then a loud voice behind her stopped her movements. She turned around and with a lifted eyebrow looked at the angry red-head. "So you've turned to a Slytherin's personal skank now huh ?" Ron hallowed to her. The voices in the Hall dying out, interested in the scene before them more. "Please, Ron, take this somewhere else." She told him, her voice laced with boredom. "In fact, take it to someone who cares, because Merlin knows I don't." She turned to walk away but he moved closer and at that she gripped her wand tighter but stopped, daring him to make a move. "You're just scared to face me like a real witch, you're nothing without us, "Mione." He grinned at her back, a tragic sneer on his face. Hermione rolled her neck and turned around, yet again, her mocking smile glowing. "Be careful, Ronniekins, I think you're projecting your fears." Her face was neutral, but the mocking tone oh her voice got Ron twitching.  "There are people who could help you, Ron, honest." Hermione put her hand on her chest, a fake concerned look crossing her face but then was quickly replaced by a glare. She glanced over his shoulder, seeing Harry avoiding her look and chewing on his nails, his body shaking. Ginny moved up from her seat, after her failed attempt to make Harry stop Ron and came closer to them. "I suggest you to drop it before you fuck up and return back to your place, Ron, right in Harry's ass, because you seem to like kissing it."  "You fucking bitch, I will teach you how to talk with your superiors." He moved to grab Hermione but a hand gripping his forearm stopped him. Surprisingly Dean Thomas, stood there, much taller than Ron. His features dark, a glare directed not at Hermione for once but at Ron who was looking around the Hall now. "Calm down, mate." The tone of his face was far from friendly. "You're embarrassing yourself, leave Granger alone or I will make you."Ron saw how displeased people were with him. How angry some looks were and they were directed not at Hermione but at him, how murderous they felt on his skin. Realising what he had said and was about to do he cursed under his nose and moved to get his arm away from Dean, who's grip was like iron. Hermione's smirk got his blood boiling the most, how she enjoyed his humiliation, he moved once again to get closer to her but now another hand on his other arm stopped him. "You don't learn do you, Weasley ?" Seamus looked the most angry of them all and without any warning they locked his arms behind his back and took him out of the Great Hall, pissed looking Headmistress followed the boys out. Hermione heard a few claps somewhere down the Hall and her small smirk got a little bigger, then she turned and left, leaving stunned and shocked people behind her, realizing things about themselves and people around them. The seed was growing, their doubts about their heroes becoming stronger. Hermione winked when she passed Ginny who looked red and yet again angry beyond this word, making Hermione laugh out loud. That sounded haunted Harry's dreams and he buried his hands in his hair, trying to remember what he had dreamt this night. He couldn't.