The Chain - Harry J. Potter

"You are the most stubborn, unbearable, and idiotic person I have ever met."

"For Godric's sake, Potter. That's a blessing!"

"What?"

"You managed to come up with three adjectives without that square box you call a brain exploding. Here's a new one to add to your very limited vocabulary: throw yourself off the Astronomy Tower, you cretinous oaf."

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Lyra Lestrange considered herself a good person.
A good daughter, a good sister, a good friend, a good student - and even a good stepdaughter, though Catelyn most certainly did not deserve that.

So what if she ran away from home at six years old and spent three months, seventeen days, and eight hours in the Muggle world?

So what if her best friends were idiots who spent most of their time annoying everyone around them?

So what if she sometimes felt the urge to grab the thickest edition of Hogwarts: A History and beat Harry James Potter over the head with it until it finally sank in?

So what if her father's cousins and the wife of one of them had committed acts so horrific that merely hearing her surname made people nearly wet themselves in fear?

She was a good person!

She helped Neville Longbottom in Potions, gave extra lessons to anyone who needed them (it didn't matter which house - yes, even the damned Gryffindors), fed every animal that crossed her path, and never told Catelyn to throw herself into a fire, no matter how much her passive-aggressive comments tested her patience every single day.

And, above all, Lyra firmly believed that no matter how exhausting her day might be, there was always someone having a worse one. That alone was reason enough to be kind, regardless of what Pansy and Draco had to say about it.

So why, then, did the idiotic Boy Who Lived act as if she were the embodiment of the Devil himself?
(See? She even knew and referenced Muggle culture.)