Like a predator stalking its prey, Hermione watched Pritchard balefully from behind a stack of books. He was laughing over some private joke with Zabini. It was too easy to imagine that the joke had been about her, or perhaps about their "punishment" that the Carrows had meted out—the two boys, along with Crabbe, had to serve detention every Friday night until the end of the school year, and Zabini had been stripped of his Quidditch Captain badge, but not kicked off the team. Truly, a slap on the wrist for restraining a classmate and carving a slur into her bare chest. 