But he did his best to make Hermione happy, because...because Pansy was right when she said he was madly in love with Hermione, and had gone soft. So every night Draco spent some time with Potter and Weasley, and to his surprise, actually didn't hate it too terribly. He tried to beat some potions knowledge into Ginny Weasley's head and was shocked to find that one of the Weasleys appeared to have some brains beneath that carroty hair. And he went to visit his mother and Pansy every day with Tiptree, and tentatively began to re-form some sort of relationship with his mother. Even after she chose him he wasn't sure if anything would ever be how it was once – in fact he was rather certain it couldn't be, because too much had changed. But, as Hermione was fond of saying, with that infuriating hopeful lilt to her voice, it was something.