Noble nodded, accepting the condolences without responding to them. "I hate the floo network," he admitted, with a wry smile. "I really prefer apparating, when I can get away with it." He felt like he was getting shot around like a billiards ball when he took the floo — one could not apparate into the Greengrass home, but sometimes he lowered the restrictions on his workshop so that he didn't have to bother with it.

In the past, it had often been lowered so that he could get away with seeing Daffodil.