She rushed through the door, stepped down the road, and tried to Apparate for the first time the way the High Reeve had Apparated her here when he brought her here more than a month ago. Hermione was thinking about Hogwarts, and she felt a familiar tug in her lower body, but not a moment later, a horrible blood-wrenching pain soared through her left hand. She cried out, falling to the ground, trying not to hurt Crookshanks on her way down. She looked around, moaning in pain, and dreadfully realized she had gotten only a few steps further. She was still just by the gates of the Malfoy Manor.