Draco and the RoR was Ginny

[Geoff]

No: HPFGUIDX 192115

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, Corey overton <coverton1982 at ...> wrote:

Corey:
> I think when it came right down to it Draco didn't really know who his friends really were.

Geoff:
I don't think Draco had very many real "friends". Crabbe and Goyle were no
more than minders for him and I believe that most relationships in Slytherin 
were power plays and jockeying for position and far from being altruistic.

Corey:
> Oh and did anyone notice that he didn't thank Harry or the others meaning Ron and 
> Hermione for saving him.

Geoff:
Well, bearing in mind that when the five survivors emerged from the fire, I 
think they were all rather distracted by what had just happened and the fact 
that the battle continued to rage round them:

'Then, through the smoke, Harry saw a rectangular patch on the wall and 
steered the broom at it and moments later  clean air filled his lungs and 
they collided with the wall in the corridor beyond.

Malfoy fell off the broom and lay face down, gasping, coughing and retching. 
Harry rolled over and sat up: the door to the Room of Requirement had 
vanished and Ron and Hermione sat panting on the floor beside Goyle, who 
was still unconscious.

"C- Crabbe,"choked Malfoy as soon as he could speak, "C - Crabbe..."

"He's dead," said Ron harshly.

.....

"Where's Ginny?" he (Harry) said sharply. "She was here. She was supposed 
to be going back into the Room of Requirement."

"Blimey, d'you think it'll still work after that fire?" asked Ron but he, too, 
got to his feet, rubbing his chest and looking left and right. "Shall we split up 
and look-?"

"No," said Hermione. getting to her feet too. Malfoy and Goyle remained 
slumped hopelessly on the corridor floor; neither of them had wands. 
"Let's stick together, I say we go..."

.....

But she broke off as yells and shouts and the unmistakable noises of 
duelling filled the corridor. Harry looked around and his heart seemed to 
fail: Death eaters had penetrated Hogwarts. Fred and Percy had just backed
 into view, both of them duelling masked and hooded men.

Harry, Ron and Hermione ran forwards to help....'

(DH "The Battle of Hogwarts" extracts from pp.510/11 UK edition)

I think this was not an environment where time was taken to stop and 
offer thanks for help given. Physical and emotional exhaustion, and the 
need to search for and help comrades overruled.

I would like to think that at some future point, some sort of exchange 
occurred and "the nod" was a silent acknowledgement of that.