It hadn’t taken her long to come to that conclusion, though Hermione had hesitated at confronting Tom immediately. It was the first time she had felt uncertain, never afraid of hexing him when he relaxed her curls for her or tried to coax her into flying with him when they were younger. She knew that her House mates were right when they said she could be as brash as any Gryffindor, though she knew she was smarter than any of them by far.