Draco woke up in the hospital wing in horrid pain. He felt dizzy and just to weak to sit up on his own so he decided to lie back down. He remembered being beaten again but then he felt something go into him something sharp. He was bruised all over he was almost covered all over besides little spots with bruises. He felt strength come back from nowhere and sat up again. He saw two other kids who seemed not to be feeling well so he guessed school had already started. Madame Pompfry came in and saw Draco and rushed towards him. "Oh! You're up thank God! You're mother left in such a hurry not even Professor Snap knows what happened to you!"

"Oh I got into a fist fight with someone." He said matter-of-factly laughing a little bit making it convincing. She shrugged and told him no more fights or the next time he may die! Draco shuddered at this and remembered his close encounter when his father stabbed him in front of Voldemort. He remember what he had just said before that. He said he'd be rooting for Harry Potter to win. He now knew he shouldn't have but in a way had no regret. He was just about to doze off when Madam Pompfry came in with a visitor. "Granger!?" He didn't expect this at all. "Oh hush!" She said putting down a box of candy for him. "What the heck are you doing here?" He said trying to hide the fact he was in a great deal of pain. "Just lay back, I have some questions for you." She said with her eyes full of concern as he sank back into the bed. 'He hasn't said a nasty thing to me yet! That's amazing just wait though' Hermione thought to herself. "Look Granger I am not in the mood to talk so would you please come back some other time?"

"No Malfoy these questions have to be asked now." "Fine just make it snappy." He spat out. "Ok, I'll try. Look I saw right through you when you were in Diagon Alley, I'm not sayin' you couldn't have won that fight but I know for a fact that, that fight was fake just to cover something big up. And I think I know what that big thing is. Malfoy does your dad.."

"Just shut it! It's none of your business! Just stay out of it! Look I'm sorry I'm not going to tell you my family affairs."

"Fine! I just want to help!" Hermione saw the shock in his eyes she knew what he was thinking but if you wanna know what he was thinking it was 'someone actually caring about me or wanting to help me! Wow! That's amazing! "