The nursing staff, apparently taking Severus’ reaction to Hermione’s presence (or rather, the fact that he neither cursed her on sight nor threw her immediately out on her arse) as irrefutable proof that she may as well have been family. That being the case, they gleefully discharged their disgruntled patient to her care with strict instructions on what he should and should not do in the following weeks. Nodding assiduously, she accepted their instructions and carefully side-along apparated him to his home. 