Hermione looks older than she did before. There are lines around her eyes, and she seems ... somehow harder. Something in her gaze sends shivers down Ginny’s spine, cold and disgusting. Hermione doesn’t look like the girl she went to school with, but then the light hits her just right and she does. And sometimes, Ginny, when walks past her in the corridors, she spots a messy cloud of hair in front of her and her heart lifts for a second because Hermione is here, Hermione will know what to do, Hermione will fix it. Then she realises, and she hates her all the more.