Well, Draco was a realist – Hermione would probably insist he was a pessimist, and be wrong – and truthfully he had been half-expecting her to sneak down and indulge in a few, unspoken of, clandestine snogs, and then one day just stop... And then after the war was over, marry Weasley and have seventeen redheaded devilspawn children. He shuddered at the thought.