Hermione was fortunate enough to find a cellar door that had been left unlocked. Most people, in her experience as a person on the run, rarely found cause to enter their cellars in the winter months. It wasn't like it used to be before the joys of modern inventions and the market on every corner. Instead of a cellar being used to store the very food necessary to survive the winter months, they were usually crowded with broken or unwanted junk: toys that had been outgrown, furniture that had become outdated, clothing that was out of fashion.