"Your fireplace?" she thought, "This kid and his mother are not kicking me out of this house!" She remembered how many houses she had been kicked out of. She had lived in three other houses before this one, and it had taken her so long to find them. Witches aren't very welcome in most towns these days, and when she was younger, around the time of the Salem witch trials, it was even harder to find a safe place to stay, even less of a desirable location.