For Harry Potter audiobook lovers, this chapter delivers an intimate, high-stakes turning point. Hermione comes back to herself in Draco Malfoy’s arms, memory flooding in, and the choice he makes is restraint, protection, and a vow that no one will touch her without consent. Their almost-kiss shatters when professors burst in, suspicion lands on Draco, and Hermione is forced to defend the boy who stopped the assault. Outside, the corridor roars with summoned Alphas, proof that her fear carried farther than she knew, and the politics of an unbound Omega at Hogwarts ignite.