Later, Hermione would find out that Pansy had dashed from the Slytherin common room into the first classroom she could find, interrupting a group of third years learning how to Transfigure hedgehogs into hairbrushes, babbling something incoherent about how they were killing her. McGonagall had dismissed the class immediately, perhaps assuming that the Carrows were delivering some twisted version of detention to students once more, but Pansy had immediately led her down to the Slytherin common room. They had come upon the scene, seeing Hermione surrounded by three Slytherin boys, half-undressed, and bleeding profusely from a garish wound on her chest that spelled out MUDBLOOD. 