Hermione was so unbelievably angry at the situation, at the universe, at herself ... that she actually laughed in her fury. She thought of all the things that she wouldn't get to do ... all the wrongs that she'd failed to right in her life. She'd only just begun to get her revenge on Malfoy for a life of tormenting, but she wouldn't get to face Ron. It was a bitter pill to concede victory to him.