He cared about Hermione far too much to fuck up their date; their relationship was frail as it was, he didn’t need to add even more to it. And even if he was pretty confident that his plan, made with Potter and Parkinson and Nott was quite good, he still couldn’t shake the anxiety off. He only shoved it deep down into his mind, behind thick walls of Occlumency, because thinking was just too much.