Hermione was blinded by flashes of light as soon as her feet landed on the marble floors of the Ministry. Instinct told her to reach for her wand, but her hand was stalled by Sirius, and she soon came to her senses, realizing the flashes were just camera flashbulbs, and that she was no longer in the middle of a war. She felt Sirius take her hand while Remus had his steady her lower back as the three pushed their way through the crowd of reporters to the lifts that would take them to the court rooms on one of the lower floors. Thankfully, Kingsley had denied media access to the courtroom during the trials, so the reporters were confined to the atrium, but that didn’t stop the whirlwind of questions before they reached the lifts.