Chapter four: Fade to Black
Hermione was unconscious for two weeks.
Harry and Ron were in the infirmary whenever they didn't have classes, with one exception- for two hours on both Saturdays and Sundays. Madam Pomfrey shooed them out, telling them that when Hermione awoke, didn't they think that she would feel better if she had some candy from Honeydukes and a few new books to read? Harry and Ron finally agreed that both of them needed a break from the constant sitting and doing nothing. However, there was one person who saw what went on at lunch during weekdays, and on those weekends.
Ginny Weasley came, and she observed: Monday through Friday, 12:00pm - 1:30 pm- Severus Snape came to Madam Pomfrey, under the pretense of bringing her Pepper-up Potion or Skelegrow. After a polite period of time had passed speaking to Madam Pomfrey, Snape came and sat next Hermione's bed. During the last fifteen minutes of his daily visits, he looked around cautiously, and then picked up her hand to hold it. When lunch was over, he left immediately, and returned the next day.
This piqued Ginny's interest, because she knew he talked to Hermione when he was there, so she "borrowed" Harry's Invisibility Cloak and sat on the other side of Hermione when Snape came on Saturday and Sunday. The details of those conversations are fairly inconsequential, and we need not concern ourselves with them, save this: the things Snape said were mostly things that people say to each other when they are deeply in love. Ginny, to say the very least, was astounded. When had this thing, whatever it was, happened between the two people she watched every day?
One thing Ginny failed to notice, however, was the small smile that appeared on Hermione's otherwise unmoving face when Snape was there.