The next thing Hermione knew she was lying in her bed still wearing her gown while Martha patted her forehead with a wet washcloth. Remembering the incidents from before, she immediately shot up which scared Martha out of her mind causing her to drop the washcloth on the floor and put her hand over her heart breathing heavily. Before Martha could say anything Hermione instantly asked, "Where's Harry and Ron?" "Oh good, so you do know them." Martha replied, "I was wondering if I should let them inside or not.they said that they were.old friends of yours?" "Yes, where are they?!" Hermione asked again impatiently. "They're waiting for you down in the living room." Martha replied annoyingly. Hermione instantly jumped out of the bed running as fast as she could to her living room. While Martha screamed, "Hey! Come back! You need your rest!!!" Hermione ignored her (as usual). When she finally got all the way to the other side of the mansion, she stopped and saw Ron sitting on a couch twiddling his thumbs while Harry paced back and forth next to the fire. They both didn't notice her presence. She just stood there, smiling at them. She hadn't smiled in a long time. It felt good. All of a sudden Ron turned his head to where she was standing and yelled, "Hermione!!!" Harry immediately turned his head towards the door to see Ron running to Hermione. She had the biggest smile on her face that he had ever seen. And.she actually looked.pretty? He broke out of his daze to see Ron letting go of Hermione. She smiled at Harry caringly. He smiled back and ran to her. She hugged him tightly and whispered, "I missed you so much!" she was now crying she was so happy. Harry let go of her and wiped away her tears with his thumb. "I missed you too!" he replied laughing. Ron, Harry, and Hermione sat down in chairs and talked for a long time. Finally when they ran out of things to say, Ron asked, "So.Hermione!.How's Krum?" The look of happiness on Hermione's face turned to that of sad. Then she looked angry. "He doesn't care." she said dazed. Ron looked at her confusedly, but Harry seemed to understand because she could have sworn that a look of pity swept across his face. "Oh.I see." Ron said sure of himself, "You're angry at him because he stepped back instead of catching you when you fainted. Though Ron didn't notice it, Hermione hadn't known that.er.little detail. So she got even more angry. Lucky Harry was there, or you would've fallen straight to the floor! Hermione looked confused. "You.you caught me Harry?" she asked. Harry looked embarrassed, "Well.you.you were falling.and.and I didn't want you to get hurt or anything and.er." "You ran all the way over from where you were and caught me in time?" she asked puzzled. "You must have run about sixty miles per hour!" "You should of seen him 'Mione!" Ron said, "He was running as fast as the wind!" Harry looked even more embarrassed. "Thanks." Hermione said kindly. Harry smiled and his face color turned back to normal. Hermione's smile soon left her face and she moaned angrily, "Did you see him out there?!" she said, "While I had a gun pointed at my head, he.he." she sighed, "I bet he wouldn't even care if I were shot." "That's not true Hermione!" a voice called out from by the door. She abruptly turned around only to see none other than Krum standing there with an angry look on his face. "Uh.oh.er.Victor, dear! H-How lovely of you to come home to check on me!" she said nervously. He sighed. "I wish I were." he said, "But I'm actually just here to change my tunic.The king has invited me to supper tonight. He says he has something important to talk to me about." He looked proud of himself though Harry and Ron were looking at him with disgust. "Oh." Hermione said a little embarrassed, "I.I'm sorry. I.I should have known." "It's quite alright." he said. "Now if you three will excuse me, I have more important issues to deal with." He started walking out of the room leaving Hermione nearly in tears, when all of a sudden Ron screamed, "Hey!" Krum turned around with an annoyed look on his face. "Who the heck do you think you are treating Hermione, our friend, your fiancée, like trash!" ".Excuse me?!" Krum yelled back in anger. "Lucky we were there!.When Hermione was in danger of getting shot in the head! Or when she fainted!--For god sake you knew! You knew that she could have gotten a concussion or something from falling onto the cement!.Or! When she was with Malfoy!" "What?!" Krum yelled at Hermione, "What were you doing with the King! You were cheating on me! Weren't you? WEREN'T YOU?!" Hermione shook her head from side to side. "No Victor, I wasn't." "You lie!" he screamed, "Now you're trying to blame all this on the king! That's your plan, isn't it?! Well, it won't work! "If I were you I'd trust Hermione any day over Malfoy!" Harry screamed. "Oh yea?" Krum asked, "Well I'd trust Malfoy any day over this filthy little...mudblood!" He looked Hermione straight into the eye giving her a nasty look. All of a sudden Krum fell the ground in agony, and Harry brought his fist back. He had more anger in his eyes than Hermione had ever seen. Krum moved his hand away from his eye and stood up abruptly. "You!.You little-" he said angrily. "Victor please don't!" Hermione begged while running in front of him trying to push him away from Harry. "Get off me!" he screamed while pushing Hermione so hard that she fell to the ground in pain. Harry leaned down to help her, but before he could lend her a hand he heard Hermione scream, "Harry! Look out!" But it was too late, Harry felt a sharp, stinging pain in his left eye. Krum aimed again but was distracted by Ron running onto him knocking him to the floor while punching him numerous times in the face. Krum started choking Ron trying to get him off. Hermione ran over to Krum and pulled on his arm. "Victor! Let--him--go!" she screamed while putting all of her energy into trying to help Ron. Victor finally let go of him, stood up, and looked proud of himself for his "victory" seeing them all on the floor. All of a sudden he came back down to earth and noticed what he had just done. He looked at Harry, who now had a black eye. Ron, who was rubbing his neck gasping for air, and Hermione, who was on the ground staring up at him with worry and hatred in her eyes. "Hermione," he said while walking towards her. She crawled backwards on her hands and knees. "Stay--Stay away from her Krum." Harry breathed weakly. Victor looked at his hands which had caused all this pain and hatred.and ran out of the room.