Professor Slughorn thankfully stopped talking and put them to task. He’d barely finished speaking when Hermione darted to the store cupboard in an attempt to put some space between her and Malfoy. When she came back Malfoy didn’t look up, he was busy steadily slicing some ginger roots.  She took a deep breath and started work on the potion ingredients she’d found, more than happy to ignore him for the rest of the lesson. She started to grind up a handful of scarab beetles. 