Lessons resumed as usual, the only difference being that Mr. Malfoy had taken over teaching her, and Hermione had to admit that she was taken by surprise. The impression she had always gotten from him was that his bark was worse than his bite, but that could not be any farther from the truth. Though she was pretty sure he had let his personal opinion of her leak through into his teaching, as he was quite strict with her. Stubbornness was not accepted by him and would earn her a slap on the arm from his cane, which hurt a lot more than she would have thought.