On the last Saturday in October, only days before Halloween, Hermione descended the stairs to the main room of the Three Broomsticks annoyed that she was there to begin with. Some of the first Hogwarts students were beginning to make their way into the establishment. Oliver was only a second year and he no longer had the benefit of an influential father to let him leave the castle so she didn't expect to have an opportunity to see her son. Just imagining what sort of favors she'd have to offer Temeritus disgusted her enough to not even consider sending an owl requesting her son be allowed to visit. Without Oliver, there was no reason to stay in the village while his schoolmates wandered around the usually sleepy village.