Draco was avoiding Hermione. Hermione knew it, and it made her feel sick to her stomach. Her feelings about what he had done, even after that awful nightmare, paled in comparison to her feelings about losing him. She had tried to corner him over the past two days, but he had shied away from her, adroitly slipping away – down to the cellar, or into another room. When she did manage to corner him, it was in front of other people, where they couldn’t actually talk, and he refused to go somewhere private.