"But I spoke to my parents at length about their decision before they died, and my father explained it plainly. They were tired, they had lived a long life, and they didn’t want this sort of threat and drama on their conscience. They were ready to die ... and it was almost as if they were searching for a justifiable reason to stop taking the Elixir. They saw it as a final act of heroic bravery, of defiance against a Dark Lord. My father seemed happy to have that on his epitaph ... that dying for Harry Potter was a noble way to end his life."