It wasn't till someone flashed a too bright light in his eyes that Draco blink himself into awareness. He flinched and when the light finally pulled away and he got a look at the source he said in shocked disbelief, "Granger, what are you doing here?"

Hermione raised an eyebrow and said, "Yeah he's definitely waking up. Do you remember your name? What day it is? What happened yesterday?"

Draco glared daggers at her and said, "Of course I remember my name, it's not something you forget!"

Hermione sighed and said, "Can you just humor me, your godfather's worried."

Draco frowned and said, "Is Severus okay? He didn't do anything stupid did he? He wanted to try and stop the auction."

Hermione frowned and asked, "You remember the auction?"

Draco looked down at his fisted hand, he was still wearing that horrible gossamer robe, so it couldn't have been that long. He wondered if maybe a girl had won the auction because he didn't feel like he just had sex… not that he would know what it felt like, being a virgin and all. Hermione snapped her fingers and asked, "Do you remember the auction?"

Draco shook his head and said, "Mother gave me a potion for nerves."

Hermione nodded and said, "I thought as much, are you alright?"

Draco suddenly went wide eyed as he asked, "You didn't…"

His voice went out, and Hermione let out a little nervous laughed before saying, "No, I didn't even bid for you… Harry did."

Draco's eyes went even wider, if that is possible, and Hermione recognize the signs of a panic attack in the making as Draco gasped out, "Potter? Potter bought me? Oh Merlin, they let Potter buy me?"

Hermione, sympathetic but offended on her friends behalf said, "It was either Harry or your fat uncle."

Draco made a face that conveyed how horrified he was at that prospect of that, that she actually let out a good natured chuckle and said, "I think that was pretty much everyone's reaction? Why would your parents let you be with someone like that?"

Draco felt his eyes well up again, damn those blasted tear ducts, as he said, "You know I should have expected it, Father always said he'd do anything for a buck, guess I just never thought he would actually do something like this."

Hermione frowned and asked, "What about your mother? She walked you into the auction. What does she think about this situation?"

Draco snorted and said, "My mother just confirmed my theory that crazy is a gene and all the black women have it."

Hermione frowned and asked, "Are you sure she's crazy? Maybe she just go along with your father."

Draco wiped at his face and said, "Besides the fact that she was excited and hoped I would go home with my disgusting pervert of an Uncle, and the fact that she apparently thought that this auction was a wedding and she was walking her daughter down the aisle, she was almost rational, you know in a 'I'm a raving lunatic kind of way.'"

Hermione frowned and said, "Severus said he thought as much, but the way he was ranting I couldn't be a hundred percent sure. I've never seen him so emotional over anything."

Draco laughed and said, "Oh my, and I always thought you and Weasley had a thing."

Hermione made a face and said, "What on earth gave you that idea?"

Draco rolled his eyes, then paused and nibbled on his lower lip nervously. Hermione noticed and said, "Harry promised he wouldn't touch you if you were completely against it."

Draco looked up at her for the first time with a small glimmer of hope, and asked, "Really?"

Hermione smiled and said, "Yes, really. Imagine Ron and my surprise when upon learning of your predicament Harry announced he wouldn't let anyone, not even Pansy, have you. I don't even think he realized how he felt until he said it out loud."

Draco frowned and said, "I thought he hated me."

Hermione tilted her head and gave Draco a calculating look before asking, "And how do you feel about Harry?"

Draco fidgeted and reiterated, "I thought he hated me."

Hermione grinned and said, "You thought he hated you so you never bother to consider how you felt about him, because if he was going to hate you, you wanted to live up to that hate?"

Draco blinked and said, "You didn't just use Legilimacy on me did you?"

Hermione shook her head and said, "Severus said that he thought you would say something like that. He said that whenever Harry came up you would say stuff like 'we hate each other' but would never just say 'I hate him'. Like you couldn't hate him, unless you were both hating each other. You might tell Harry that though, because he doesn't believe a word out of Severus's mouth."

Draco nodded and Hermione smiled as she got up and headed to the door while saying, "Harry should be in, in a minute to check on you. You two really need to talk, since you're technically engaged and all."