When Harry told her about a night Harry and Ron had been arguing because of how the locket affected them, Hermione thought back to how Draco had refused her to even touch the diadem. They had both said a bunch of things they had meant but had never voiced in their friendship and which they had been forced to deal with afterwards. Hermione could tell some things were still strange between them, but they also seemed closer than before after having spent such a long time just the two of them together.