Returning to the cottage wasn't what she wished to do. As she had limited options, she couldn't be picky. There wasn't even a home for her to sneak back into in Hogsmeade. Even if she could guarantee that Rodolphus or one of the idiots that he employed in his plan for world domination, or whatever ridiculous idea he had planned, wouldn't find her, there was nothing but a massive hole where her home once stood. Augustus" house would be watched and there was always the chance that Alecto would find her there again. Besides, she didn't want to give her ex-lover any sort of hope that there could be a future together. Even when she lived in his house with her husband and son, she caught him looking in her direction when he thought she couldn't see him with a wistful expression in his eyes. He would probably do whatever she asked him to do for the rest of his life.