She glanced about at the girls" dormitory now; most of the other seventh year girls were asleep, the curtains to their four posters closed. It disquieted Hermione to some degree that, outside of Ginny and that Demelza Robins, the Chaser from the Gryffindor Quidditch team, she didn't really know anybody. Lavender hadn't come back – last Hermione had heard, her former rival was deep into therapy treatment for her lycanthropy. Nor had Parvati Patil returned, perhaps figuring that after defending the castle from enemies within for an entire term, that constituted her NEWTS, and one seventh year of that nature was surely enough.