- but she did eat, and sleep, because Adriana would tug gently on her sleeve and remind her, or Jarek would contrive to slip sleeping powder into her tea, and Hermione decided that all the lies and the hard work and the freezing cold were worth it. She began to feel comfortable in the world of Durmstrang Institute. And so she began not to notice the faint little alarm bell ringing in the back of her head when her classmates giggled over the dismembered pieces of a bear, or when someone made an offhand joke about Muggle-hunting. She didn't want to notice, not when throwing a fit might make Natalia decide she wasn't worth her valuable time, or make Viktor stop helping her study.