Hermione was woken up in the middle of the night from a deep sleep by the sound of a drunken Rodolphus stumbling down the corridor to his room. Just a few minutes after two, she was surprised to hear him come home at all. He'd been very angry when she made the off-hand remark about dying. When he'd disappeared in the past to calm down at the bottom of a bottle, he would be missing for days. She'd been foolishly hoping she might have a respite from his presence. Already she was tired of being around him and second-guessing her choices at every turn, especially after finding nothing of any value in her search of his house in his absence.