Hermione blushed,  what had changed?  What had happened to so drastically change her opinion on the pureblood beside her. The fact that he was her soulbond sat buried beneath a pile of denial in her mind.  It can't just be that , she thought. He had surprised her over the past few weeks, with his openness to her view of the war. He was not on the Dark Lord’s side any more, and that fact alone seemed to have been the major shift in her opinion of him.