The moment Hermione heard about the trial, she started writing her testimony. It had been sixty pages long and none of her friends had been willing to read through all of it. So she had taken it to Snape, who had given a long-suffering sigh and argued that this would even out the life debt he owed to her. When Hermione had mentioned that she was quite pleased with how high he thought of her writing, he had quickly retracted his stamens and kicked her out of his hospital room.