The wizard stepped back from the doorway to invite her inside his flat. His home might have taken up the entire top floor of the building, but there were still neighbors beneath him. Neither one of them wished to have curious onlookers come up to the top floor to demand what all the noise was in the middle of the night. Hermione reluctantly stepped in. She was afraid that if she entered the flat he would figure out some devious way to sidetrack her from her mission.