With his hands shaking, but trying desparately not to show it Draco folded and slipped the letter into the left side pocket of his pants, promising himself that he would read it sometime in private. Maybe.
'Ouch, ouch, ooouuuuch' thought Hermione as she half woddled like a duck, half hobbled through the door to the hospital wing.
This morning running to breakfast she slipped on the very second step and slid on her backside down the other twenty odd of them screaming the whole way down. She had always feared tripping over on the stairs and landing flat on her face, ever since her first day at Hogwarts and had been so careful not to, but now all her careful foot placing had gone to waste. Worst of all her shreiking had travelled into the Great Hall where every other student was eating breakfast and half of the bloody school came racing out to find her lying at an odd angle at the bottom of the stairs.
"Hey, are ya righ' man? You're, ah, kinda actin, um funny"
"What in the muggle world are talking about Goyle? I'm not acting funny nor will I ever, it must be you!" Draco snapped 'Touchy' muttered Goyle. Draco pretending not to here him thought 'Oh yeah, that was the way to handle the situation Draco, real smooth!'. Fortunately for them they had arrived at Hagrid's hut for Care of Magical Creatures which promtly stopped any unwanted conversation.
"Hermione, what are you doing in here?" asked Ron at lunch time.
"Milking." she replied smartly, Ron rolled his eyes.
Hermione had not made an appearence at any of todays classes and Ron and Harry were worried, she hadn't been at breakfast either. It wasn't until lunch that they discovered thanks to Macgonagall she was in the hospital wing.
"That's not like you, Hermione"
"Well I have a reason not to want to go to classes at the moment don't I"
"Oh Hermione," Ron said sitting down on the side of her bed "You two didn't talk at all last night did you"
Hermione looked at him, answering his question well enough, then looked at her hands. Ron sighed, clearly disapointed, stood up and walked out of the room. 'Probably going to the Great Hall for lunch' Hermione thought ' just when I need someone to talk to he storms off.'
Ron and Harry came into the hospital wing almost tripping over each others feet and laughing histerically. Hermione was confused, she thought Ron had been angry at her just five minutes ago when he'd walked out, but here he was acting normal.
"Ah haha, you should have seen it Hermione, you should have seen it!" said Harry confusing Hermione further.
"Malfoy, he, he just went phsyco!" explained Ron as he flopped down on the chair next to Hermione's. Seeing that his friend still didn't understand he tried to explain more "Just now at lunch Malfoy all of a sudden just stood up and was shouting at Crabbe or Goyle or whatever you couldn't even understand what he was saying aye, it was so crazy, hahaha"
"He just stormed out after he realised the whole school was looking at him, but he's touchy about something!" added Harry.