Another privilege of their position as eighth-years; they didn’t have to wait for Hogsmeade weekends like the rest of Hogwarts. McGonagall had made it clear that they were adults, and they had the right to come and go as they pleased, as long as they behaved themselves. "Upheld the reputation of Hogwarts’, as she’d phrased it. For that, Hermione was grateful. It felt a little demeaning to win a war and be reduced back down to permission slips and curfews.