No one else met her in the corridor. Most of the Unspeakables kept the oddest hours. She never knew when she would run the risk of meeting one and was grateful to find her pathway to the staircase leading down to Level Ten and the courtrooms unimpeded and unwitnessed. Trials in the old courtrooms were rare. In the early days of the regime, there was always excitement. Relaxing in the fact that she was almost there without anyone knowing what she was up to, Hermione reached for the doorknob of the empty cupboard.