Her afternoon classes were no better. Someone shoved her while she was attempting a transfiguration and she screwed it up. Because of that, Professor McGonagall took five points from Gryffindor. A book went sailing through the classroom and hit her in the back of her head. Her professor, remembering what Snape had said, conveniently missed it. And of course, she got another detention for not having her homework assignment with her.
At supper, someone jostled her while she was trying to swallow her soup. It ended down the front of her uniform. When she reached for some meat, Lavender pinched her and whispered, "Mudblood whore". Hermione lost her appetite. As soon as she thought it wouldn't be noticeable, she fled the Great Hall. Thorfinn noticed her leaving and picked up two apples, shoving them in his pockets, and followed after her.
Hermione wasn't surprised this time to see that Thorfinn had followed her. She was walking toward Snape's classroom and he walked beside her. As Snape was still at dinner, she had to wait outside his locked classroom until he returned. Thorfinn offered her an apple saying, "You didn't have much dinner...would you like an apple?"
Hermione smiled up at him and politely thanked him. Both she and Thorfinn then sat down in the hallway, each eating their apple in companionable silence. Hermione was so hungry that she ate the entire apple...including the core! Seeing this, he handed her the remains of his, which she accepted. Once they saw Professor Snape approaching, they stood up. Thorfinn whispered to her that he would be waiting for her when her detention was done...and then he left for the library to do his homework.
As he had promised, he had been waiting for her once Snape released her from her detention...and just as he had the previous night, he escorted her back to Gryffindor. He looked down on her and told her that he would be waiting for her in the morning to escort her to the Great Hall for breakfast...and then he asked what time she would be ready. Hermione told him she would be ready by 8 am. He nodded and then once she was inside her common room, he return to his dorm to get to go to bed early.
Passing through the common room, Hermione received more of the same abused she had experienced all that day and the previous night. She hurried to her dorm and got ready for bed. She decided that she would do her homework in the morning. She grabbed Crookshanks and crawled into bed, spelling her bed curtains closed...and then she was asleep.
