It went without saying she never saw him outside of classes since all three of the Triad were forbidden from going anywhere near his rooms. They'd been told that by Professor McGonagal after she'd discovered they'd lied to her the morning after their marking. So they couldn't even sneak off to go bug him in his cell. Oh she knew exactly where it was. They all did. Albus had told Ron and her back in their second year when he wanted to see if Harry was ready to follow orders yet. And they'd told Ginny the following year. Harry was a creature of habit. It'd never occur to him to change his room. Heck, he never even tried to change the password so why would he change his cell for a real room? She had no idea the Castle had done that for him.
But try as they might, they couldn't get close to Harry's room. Stepping a foot into the hallway his room was in, seemed to set off a trigger that would bring a member of the staff down on them. Which usually led to another detention. Just for being in the hall. Or talking to someone. Or not talking to someone. Anything they could think of. Hermione was getting really tired of being in detention. Never in her life had she ever gotten into so much trouble at a school.
None of the teachers would let her or Ron sit next to Harry in classes either if they actually managed to come late enough to a class where he had arrived ahead of them. It was usually Ron who tried that since Hermione had an aversion to sitting in the back of her classes and that was where Harry always sat now. That was where the goof-offs sat. The only serious students who sat in the back of the room were the late arrivals and to Hermione, they weren't really serious students since if they were, they wouldn't have been late.
Harry had a seat in the back of each classroom and the teachers seemed determined none of the students would sit near enough to bother him in it. Ron had even tried to pass Harry a note threatening bodily harm if he didn't remove his mark one day on the way into their Potions class. Professor Snape had swooped down on it where it lay being ignored by Harry. He'd read it aloud and given Ron a detention for threatening another student. He'd then harassed Ron so badly Ron had walked out of the class with a weeks worth of detentions and Gryffindor one hundred points lighter. Needless to say there had been more grief to come when the rest of Gryffindor found out.
And every single classroom had enough seating that there was no reason for any student to need to sit next to him. Not even Professor Trelawney would let Ron sit next to Harry and she was a dingbat of a teacher. If they tried to follow him outside of classes, the other students got in the way or a teacher came by and gave them a detention for loitering. Or something. No word of explanation from them was ever listened to or believed.
And that only served to convince her more than ever the Wizarding World was outdated and needed to be revitalized before it imploded on itself. Because in her eyes it was only because of her blood status that no one would help her force Potter to do as she wished and remove his awful brand from her face. She refused to understand she had done him wrong. Because Hermione Granger was never wrong. She never did anything bad or against the rules. She didn't deserve this treatment. And he was only getting away with it because she was a muggleborn.
Nor were either of the afflicted Weasely's much help. At this point in time, all Ginerva wanted to do was cry for her Mother while Ron wanted to rant and rave about the injustice of it all. Of course, due to the nature of the punishment, he couldn't actually get far in his ranting before he was left gasping for breath with a very swollen face. But that was mainly because he had long ago worked all his lies about Harry into his rants so the runes would react when he got going. But Ron was like Hermione in that he refused to believe he had done anything wrong. He insisted that Harry had done him wrong by daring to mark him as he had. Because he was a pureblood and outranked Harry who was only a halfblood.
Sometimes Ginny would stop crying long enough to suggest she go seduce Potter into removing the brands. That would set off Ron again as there was no way he wanted to think about his pureblood sister seducing a pathetic half-blood. Bloody rich halfblood or not. Hermione would simply roll her eyes and send the redheaded girl a sneer because Hermione knew Ginny was still trying to trap Harry. Snootily she'd tell her, "You can't marry him any more, Ginny. That door closed when he marked you and told the whole school you're his property. So even if you did succeed in seducing him, it'd do you no good. No one would make him marry you. All anyone would say is, he was taking advantage of his property rights."
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