He stepped towards her cautiously, as if she were a dangerous animal, and tugged gently on the end of her hair before turning back to his potion. Hermione frowned, looking down at her lap as she thought about the move. Susan, Theo and Blaise had taken to touching her like that - a hand to the shoulder, tugging on her hair, smoothing a hand across her forehead, fairly often in the last several weeks. She hadn't paid much attention to it, other than to note that she couldn't feel it. She supposed, now that she thought about it, they had been using these touches to test her reactions - to see if they still caused her pain. She furrowed her brow, wondering at what else she missed while mired in numbness. She opened her mouth - to ask what, she didn't know, when Theo answered her original question.