No one was at the Rowle house when she carefully knocked on the back door. She wasn't aware of their plans for the holiday. With it being the first Christmas without Hannah who truly was the heart of their family, she could only imagine that wherever they were, they were struggling. While possible that the older girls stayed at Hogwarts, she wasn't sure where Alice was living. She knew that tensions had been high between Thorfinn and his father-in-law, especially where his daughters were concerned. Perhaps the girls were with their grandfather while their father hid himself at the bottom of a bottle. Hermione was worried about her old friend.