Her breath is coming whooping hitches as she tries to speak, voice wobbling and stuffed with tears: "Not without you. Not...not without..." And then the sobs rise up again and Hermione has to stop speaking while she tries to suppress them. Malfoy holds her very gently in the circle of his arms and rubs her back between her shoulder blades, making meaningless soft soothing noises as her shoulders shake and her chest aches with the force of her grief. Malfoy is patient, waiting until she finally contains herself, taking a few shaky breaths, and pulling back just enough to look up at him – his arms slip away as she does, and she finds herself missing the warmth of him immediately.