Hermione arrived an hour later than normal to work - making her fifteen minutes late for her start time - and rode the lift with a group of Aurors fresh from training who didn’t seem to notice that she was even there as they speculated on what the great Harry Potter would be like to work for. When she arrived at her desk, her boss asked her if everything was alright and pointed out that she’d never been less than thirty minutes early to work since she’d been hired.