Does Eli require permission to reenter his home?

[Therion]

In circumstances where Eli is living with a guardian, does Eli need his guardian to re-invite him in whenever he leaves his home? Is he 'locked out' of his home whenever he exits its premises?

[Siggdalos]

In the Sunday 8 November (Evening) chapter, when he needs to be invited through the front door to Oskar's apartment and Oskar points out that he was already invited through the window, Eli simply replies that he needs a new invitation because the door is a new entrance. There's also no mention of him needing an invitation when he runs from the basement back to his and Håkan's apartment in Sunday 8 November (Evening/Night). So I would say no, once a vampire has been invited through an entrance, they're free to come and go through that entrance as they please.

Also, the novel doesn't give any clue about this, but I think it's logical to assume that a vampire wouldn't need any invitation at all when they're moving into an empty home (since it then becomes the vampire's own "home") and that the rule only applies when they're trying to enter a space that's normally occupied by other people.

Also, welcome to the forum.

[metoo]

As I understand it, once Eli is invited to enter into particular place via a particular entrance, he is free to enter there again but only through that entrance.

Now, there are many aspects of this that are not answered by the novel.
For instance, would Eli need a new invitation if new people moved in to a house or an apartment into which he had been invited by the former tenants?
I think so, but this never happens in the novel so nobody can tell for sure.

Also, the novel doesn't give any clue about this, but I think it's logical to assume that a vampire wouldn't need any invitation at all when they're moving into an empty home (since it then becomes the vampire's own "home") and that the rule only applies when they're trying to enter a space that's normally occupied by other people.

I would agree to this.

[Therion]

It's an ambiguous system. Thank you, Siggdalos, metoo.

[sauvin]

It's an ambiguous system. Thank you, Siggdalos, metoo.

It's fiction, far more concerned with the thematic than with the axiomatic.