Malfoy could only keep this up soo long tho although he never used the word mudblood again after she clocked in her third year, but his staged fights got worse and worse as the time went by due to major teasing and questioning by his house mates. They were getting kinda suspecious and he had to do something , though he loved her his pride that was instilled in him since birth was starting to take over. She was devistated when they had a huge fight in their fourth year after she found out he was thinking of becoming a death eater and was there when Cedric died, yet he tryed soo hard to make every one think that Harry killed him. Unknown to Hermione he was extreamely jelous of Harry, because Harry could hang out with ehr at anytime eh pleased and didnt get hazed for it and never had to worry about pride. For he didnt care what people thought. Having to live with the fact that he knew both Ron and Harry had a major crush on her. They never let her know it but Malfoy could see through those fony acts. He knew he had a great girl and just wished that even for a day he could bear to disapoint his father to have his relationship with her grow to more than just the secret meetings in the specifyed areas, but these feelings could never over take the pride in him. Not to mention Voldemort was mad enough that he asked not to be enitiated as a death eater. His father was furious with him, but eventually let it go. Though he still made him fight in his fifth year at the battle in the ministry of magic. It hurt him soo bad to put a weak crusatous curse on her.
Hermione was hurt but still focused on her studies as hard as ever and got top marks on all of her OWL's. That is untill her sixth year. She and Malfoy had gone to an intimate level that summer, after that nothing had been the same. she feared so much that if Harry and Ron found out that they'd never talk to her again soo she took it appon herself to start the fights when people came by when Malfoy didnt seem to notice them. As a result they were growing apart, though the fact that they haed shared intimacy made it hard for her to focus because now she had urges but refused to continue these moments at school for fear of someone walking in on them or worst yet Harry and Ron finding out. She'd be devistated to make matters worse Dumbledore was acting some what strange around her, like he had something to tell her but couldnt find the words to do it. This made her somewhat suspecious. She had always thought about him as more than a head master he was probably closer to her than her father. She never felt like she quit fit with her her family, just somethings never clicked.