"It seemed like the right thing to do." Marley didn't think of herself as particularly heroic. She was just trying to be a better person than she'd been at Harry's age, and maybe atone for some of her really and truly bad choices.

"I suppose you could say that I'm something of a philanthropist, and a patron of the arts," she said. Leaning forward, and lowering her voice, she watched Harry's reaction carefully as she added, "Others might use words like 'witch.' Incorrectly, I might add."

The correct term for what she did, well, that was something else entirely.