She was still lost in thought when she returned to the empty cottage in Ottery St. Catchpole, the place where she and Ron had first been a married couple and where they had parented their children. Crookshanks the Third purring at her feet, Hermione nursed a goblet of wine as her mind wheeled back decades earlier, replaying memories (some of which she would still sooner forget) only to now re-examine them in a new light.