For Harry Potter audiobook lovers, this is a close-mic Draco Malfoy chapter about want, denial, and the cost of keeping quiet. Hermione asks the question that matters, Do you care, and Draco flinches from the truth, choosing restraint that feels like a lie. Slytherin politics ignite as Theo Nott steps forward, Blaise Zabini needles, and a dorm-room confrontation turns vicious while Cornelius Burbage’s crew pushes Draco toward a mistake the school would love to punish. In the stacks, Arithmancy meets Charms, Dawlish lingers in memory, and Daphne Greengrass makes a polished holiday offer Draco refuses, which sends him stalking out to settle a score.