For the upcoming weeks, Hermione was learning Occlumency with the High Reeve. He exhausted her to the point of sobbing every day, making her relive the worst moments in her life, repeating that it’s the only way he’ll make her fight back. Hermione wanted to believe she was getting better with each passing Legilimency session, but the truth was a bit different – she was so drained by the constant attacks on her mind that she didn’t get the time to recover from, and she could tell her performance got worse as time went on.