No Hermione couldn’t tell them, and she hadn’t really made an effort with the other girls in her year to feel close enough to share something so vulnerable. So, she kept it quiet, she glamoured her skin to keep the bruises hidden, and she went to work with a false smile plastered on her face; and when the bruises faded, she kept the glamours up to hide the scars on her arms. Malfoy had looked at her as if he knew something, but no, surely not? Her charms had held, and she knew she was keeping her tone light. But there was something in his eyes that made her wonder.