She couldn't sit around waiting any longer. Checking in on her husband in the bedroom, once she saw with her own eyes that he wasn't likely to be disturbed by anything less than an earthquake for the next several hours, she gulped down a glass of fire whiskey to steady her nerves. What she was about to do was probably foolish, but it beat sitting in the cottage feeling helpless. Knowing that she would talk herself out of it if she took too long, Hermione took a deep breath and left the cottage. Thanks to the wonders of Apparition she was at her destination in no time.