. or you can elect one of your class to go through it with you here." I knew he was referring to me without mentioning my name."Scarface." Bob Goodman... piped up.The principal went mad and tore him off a real strip. "If you wish Mr. Faulkes to tutor you, you will treat him with the same respect as every other member of my staff. You will address him properly and heed what he says. If you cannot do that, pick up your stuff and leave but looking at your grades," he consulted a form on the outside. "If we can establish they are not mine, will you accept that they areyours and put them back on?" I replied calmly.This took him off guard as he had expected me to shout back at him."Er, OK. But how are you going to do that?" he asked."Just watch me," I replied. "I think you will accept that I am wearing abra, panties and pantyhose?" Yes, so?" he replied watching me.I stepped into the bath. My bra turned into the necklace, it alwaysturned into and my pantyhose turned into the anklet it. "But I can make it too hot for you tostay at this school if you dare to permit a child with a disease toinfect the student body!"She had La Rond quaking like a bowl of jelly. To calm her, he threwher a bone:"Miss Umbridge, you are, as usual, correct when you aver that onecannot, and must not permit a child with a disease to infect others.If a child does have a disease, then that child must quit the schooluntil it is cured."Now it was Maggie's time to object and to be shushed. "My dear. For two long years, a bitter war had waged in my heart. And now I come to find it was all for naught. I was mad. I was more than mad: I was pissed as hell. But my heart... my heart couldn't be angry with him. It just couldn't. He'd made a promise to my mom and kept it until I figured it out on my own and it was fruitless to deny it any longer. If he didn't come clean with me by that point, I think he knew he'd only become a liar in my eyes. And maybe that was something else eating at his.