"She's a nightmare, honestly. It's no wonder she hasn't got any friends!"
Hermione Granger tightened the hold of her bag and braced herself as she sped walk past the two boys, Harry and Ron, who obviously had no idea she was behind them. Who cared if she didn't have any friends? She would make friends perhaps not now but soon enough. She knew that boy Ron and he wasn't very good at practical and written work, was he? No, she was perfectly fine without friends.
Yet those thoughts still didn't stop her tears from forming as she brushed him by.