"Not evil, but... easily corrupted or manipulated by evil," she explains carefully. "Death in itself isn't evil, after all. It just is. People just have an uneasy feeling about it because it's irreversible, and so unknowable." Except in one case, which is striking Hermione as odd here. "If people don't go to the Fade when they die, then what are the spirits? They're not the same as ghosts?"

Then again, if he doesn't have all the answers, she's not going to hold it against him, especially when he's been more than willing to provide her with what answers he can. "I'd like that, I think. I'm not used to being quite this far out of my depth. At least, not while I'm alone, away from my friends."