Then one day after class, Hermione had bumped into the professor as he was in a hurry to leave, and it clicked. The burning sensation almost scorched her alive, so much more than she was used to from the Tom residing within her head, and Quirrell felt it too. It was her Tommy. The man with another face had gotten a look on the one he showed to the world, one Hermione had never seen before, and she had wanted to hug him and never let him go. But protecting him would be enough as it was simply her other half's soul that resided in this body that had an entirely separate consciousness, a thing very different that what resided within her mind.