They checked two bathrooms before stumbling across the rank-smelling troll, and Theo had warily distracted the troll away from them with a light spell cast on a door that unfortunately turned out to be the very bathroom that Hermione was in. From there the story veered more into fiction, with Harry’s gallant attack on the troll that saved Hermione’s life, with an overpowered Severing Charm born of pure desperation. Hermione and Harry chimed in occasionally to add their support to the story.