When Harry awoke the following morning, he found that Hermione had shifted slightly during the night.
She was no longer merely lying stretched out beside him, but was laying half on top of him, one of her legs nestled between his and her curves pressing pleasantly against the side of his chest, her head resting on his shoulder like it belonged there. As she was still sound asleep, Harry looked around the hospital wing, trying not to disturb her. He saw that they were the only two in the hospital wing, with the exception of one bed that had the curtain pulled around it, which Harry assumed the real Mad-Eye Moody was recovering behind.
Relaxing back against his pillow, Harry played with Hermione's hair until he finally felt her stirring. Fully awakening, and realizing that Harry was already awake as well, Hermione leaned her head back slightly to look up at him, which put her lips too close to his for him to refrain from leaning down slightly and capturing didn't break apart until they heard the door to Madam Pomfrey's office open, as she hurried over to them to make sure everything was still good with Harry now that they were both awake.
Despite relatively little physical damage having been inflicted upon him and most of that having been healed already by Fawkes' tears, Madam Pomfrey was unable to release Harry from the hospital wing for another day due to Dumbledore's orders the night before, meaning Harry and Hermione had to spend the entire day in the hospital wing, trying not to go insane from boredom. Having absolutely zero interest in being anywhere besides with her boyfriend, Hermione never left his side that day, except for one short trip right after breakfast to go get them both books from the library to pass the time reading while they were stuck there, and when night arrived, once again curled up next to him in his bed to sleep.
When Harry was finally released the following day, he and Hermione walked down to the kitchens to get some food, Harry wanting to avoid crowds for as long as possible, and Hermione not particularly interested in them at the moment either. After that, they headed outside to relax on the spacious grounds, where they knew they could keep their distance from anyone wanting to pester Harry about what had happened during the third task.
~HP~
Over the following week until the Hogwarts Express was to take them all back to London, every time they did cross paths with people in the hallways, or entered the Great Hall to grab a bite to eat (always going at the least crowded times to avoid as many people as possible), most of their fellow students skirted around them (or specifically Harry) as quickly as they could, often avoiding meeting Harry's eyes, or whispering about him behind their hands to each other as they passed.
There hadn't been any articles in the Daily Prophet actually talking about anything that had happened at the third task, only a tiny blurb saying Harry had won that hadn't even mentioned Cedric's death. But as everyone in the castle had been there for the task and its aftermath themselves, Harry and Hermione knew they were connecting Rita's article the morning of the task saying he was insane and power-hungry, to everything that they assumed must have happened in the maze given the fact it had ended with Harry winning and Cedric dying, leaving them all believing Harry to be highly disturbed and dangerous. From snatches of whispered conversations they did catch, they knew many of them were inventing their own wild theories of just how Cedric had died, most of which sinisterly involved Harry doing whatever it took to win the TriWizard Cup, and the thousand galleon prize and fame that came with it.
Worst of all though, perhaps, was Ronald Weasley.
Who had not only been reassured in his own personal beliefs that he'd held ever since Harry's name had come out of the goblet — that Harry was an attention-whore seeking all the fame he could get — and was therefore making up stories that supported this long-held belief, but was also trying to spread those stories as far and wide as he possibly could in order to destroy Harry's reputation before the Boy-Who-Lived could capitalize on everything that had occurred and gain even more attention and fame through it all. So despite the complete tragedy that had befallen Harry during the third task, and the mental and emotional pain he was going through after everything he'd suffered that night, Ron was doing his best to turn everyone against Harry, so he couldn't become even more popular and have even more of a limelight than he already did.
Of course, it probably didn't help that the redhead still didn't know that Voldemort had returned, as Mrs Weasley, like always, thought her children too young to be informed of any such horrors, and so hadn't told any of them. The twins knew, because the afternoon Harry had been stuck in the hospital wing, they had visited him and Hermione to try to cheer Harry up some, and Harry and Hermione (though mostly Hermione) had given the twins a very brief summary of what had occurred the night before, so the two of them would be informed and as prepared as possible for anything that might come. And Ginny had been in the hospital wing when Fudge had come storming into the hospital wing after using a dementor to murder Crouch Jr (or worse — kiss him), so she knew the general idea that He-Who-Shall-Not-Be-Named was back. But Ron didn't know anything that had actually happened, nor did any of the rest of the castle.
But even without Ron's help, the castle was quickly putting two and two together and coming to the answer of five that Harry had murdered Cedric just so he could win the tournament, and therefore avoided Harry and Hermione almost as much as Harry and Hermione were trying to avoid the vast majority of the castle. In fact, the only person besides the twins Harry and Hermione spent any time with was Fleur, who like the twins they gave a quick synapsis of what had actually happened after the veela had been transported out of the maze, so she would know the truth and be able to go back to her family and prepare them for the upcoming war.
But in general, Harry and Hermione simply ignored everyone in the castle and their whispers behind Harry's back, letting everyone think whatever they wanted to about Harry like the castle did every time something big happened involving Harry, knowing no amount of truth was going to break through the beliefs the castle wanted to hold about Harry, so it wasn't even worth their trying.