Recaps

Draco and Hermione spent the voyage learning Chinese and swimming, with their teasing growing more intimate. At the casino, Draco met Diana, helped her escape an unwanted gambler, and warned her about risking more money before she reunited with her husband.

• Draco magically gave Hermione an instant understanding of Chinese, and she read his love-filled lyrics before settling into a routine of poetry lessons and affectionate teasing.
• While Hermione read, Draco watched women at the pool until she caught him, then helped her learn to swim and used the lessons to steal kisses.
• Hermione improved at swimming, and Draco’s underwater tricks prompted her to scold him and threaten to make him sleep on the sofa.
• Draco went to the casino in disguise and met Diana, a woman waiting for her husband who gradually lost the money she had won on a slot machine.
• After a man grabbed Diana’s wrist, she asked Draco for help, and he pulled her behind him until the man recognized Draco and fled.
• Draco and Diana introduced themselves and laughed together after he lost several rounds, then she explained that she and her husband were unemployed and trying to repay a loan on their unfinished house.
• Draco warned Diana about casino debts and loan sharks, then led her to the dice area so she could find her husband, who was celebrating a win beside a stack of chips.

David’s gambling destroyed the money Diana hoped to use for a home, while Draco helped her win a fortune at the slots. Diana left David after he tried to force her, and Draco returned to Hermione, whose jealousy surfaced when she noticed another woman’s perfume on him.

• David ignored Diana’s warnings and gambled away their chips, then lost the last money Bellatrix lent him.
• Diana found Draco after David’s losses, and Draco offered her work as his assistant, and their slot-machine bets unexpectedly began paying out.
• Draco secretly manipulated the slot machines as Diana won jackpot after jackpot, but casino staff eventually investigated and banned them from the slots.
• Diana discovered David losing Bellatrix’s loan at blackjack, confronted him, and dragged him out after he asked Draco for money.
• David tried to force Diana into sex at their cabin, but Mary walked in and Diana fled.
• Diana told David how frightened and humiliated he had made her, then asked to be alone.
• Draco returned to Hermione, who noticed unfamiliar perfume on him and questioned his casino trip.
• Draco reassured Hermione, while she denied being jealous and insisted he shower before they ate.

Draco and Hermione shared a romantic evening before Draco helped Diana confront her troubled marriage and leave the ship. After Diana departed, Draco and Hermione went to the tennis court, where Hermione began learning to play.

• Draco and Hermione enjoyed dinner, kissed on the ship’s bow, and spent time reading together in the library.
• Draco rescued Diana from the deck railing and stayed with her as she explained her financial troubles and her husband’s demands.
• Draco took the drunken Diana to a single suite, where she kissed him before vomiting on him, and Hermione arrived after hearing Diana through the Two-Way Mirror.
• Hermione confronted Draco about his care for Diana, but they reconciled and agreed to see what help Diana wanted in the morning.
• Diana learned that David had signed a divorce agreement, then rejected him when he revealed he had only pretended to sign it to get Draco’s money.
• Draco arranged for Diana to leave the ship, and she departed for Britain while he and Hermione teased each other about his offer to play tennis.
• Draco and Hermione changed for tennis, met Jack and the other players, and joined the court’s rotation.
• Draco coached Hermione on her grip and swings before asking Jack to practice with her, and Hermione struggled to control her returns.

Draco and Hermione played tennis with their friends, showing off their growing teamwork while Hermione jealously watched Draco partner Becky. After dinner, Draco disguised himself as Collard and took Becky to the casino, where she lost three roulette bets on red.

• Hermione lost to Jack, and Draco challenged Jack to prove his coaching ability before defeating him and Tom with his unusual serves and shots.
• Draco played Barty, Becky, Kate, Mary, and Susan, then teased Hermione during their one-on-one match as she grew jealous of his attention to Becky.
• Draco and Hermione teamed up against Jack and Becky, improved their coordination, and won with a joint strike that ended the match.
• Draco and Hermione refused to switch partners, while Becky later teamed with Draco against Jack and Tom and won the deciding game with his help.
• Becky celebrated by clinging to Draco, then pleaded with Hermione for forgiveness, and Draco and Hermione later joined their friends for dinner at the ship’s Chinese restaurant.
• Draco left Hermione in their suite, disguised himself as Collard, and persuaded Becky to play roulette with him.
• Becky chose red for three consecutive bets, lost each time when the ball landed on black, and blamed Draco for giving her his bad luck.