Uma revelação sobre a vida de Hermione a faz rever o conceito e o propósito de sua existência. Por sorte, ou acaso do destino, Severo Snape está lá e ela encontra apoio na figura dele. Uma grande mudança ocorre no mundo bruxo. Os papeis se inverteram e ninguém mais sabe quem são os mocinhos e os vilões.

He can't leave the room. Her room. And it's all the Order's fault. Confined to a small space with only the Mudblood for company, something's going to give. Maybe his sanity. Maybe not. "There," she spat. "Now your Blood's filthy too!" DM/HG. PostHBP.

He felt something close to pity for the woman in front of him. And while that disturbed Draco to no end, what really disgusted him most of all was the harrowing fact that someone or something had broken Hermione Granger’s spirit beyond recognition.