Pushing aside her fears that she was making a giant mistake, Hermione washed quickly in the shower. Her hair was dried and pulled up in the severe style she started wearing it in years earlier when she was always in danger of a client of hers grabbing it and ripping it out. None of her clothes were removed from the closet she shared with Antonin. In fact, nothing about the house had been changed at all in her absence. It felt eerily like she'd never left. Dressing in the robes that all Ministry officials wore, she stood in front of the full-length mirror in the bathroom to view the result.