Twenty minutes in and both boys stood panting, Theo clutched his side where Malfoy  hit him with a cleverly aimed slicing hex, something Hermione was beginning to think was his specialty. She also realised that both boys had been holding out on them as they duelled earlier because now they were both battered and injured from the curses that the other had struck them with.  Malfoy's lip was bleeding from a knock to the ground he had taken diving out of the way of Theo’s stunner and he seemed to be holding his shoulder carefully; said shoulder hung limp at his side.