“How could I do that and still call myself a teacher?” she said. “With all that you’re going through.”
She frowned. “With all that we know about Harry.” She shook her head slightly.
“There will come a day when we’ll talk about this, Conor O’Malley. And we will, believe me.”
She started gathering the papers on her desk. “But today is not that day.”
She gave him a last look. “You have bigger things to think about.”
It took Conor a moment to realize it was over. That this was it. This was all he was going to get.
“You’re not punishing me?” he said.
The Headmistress gave him a grim smile, almost kind, and then she said almost exactly the same thing his father had said.
“What purpose could that possibly serve?”
Miss Kwan walked him back to his lesson. The two pupils they passed in the corridor backed up against the wall to let him go by.
His classroom fell silent when he opened the door, and no one, including the teacher, said a word as he made his way back to his desk.
Lily, at the desk beside him, looked like she was going to say something. But she didn’t. No one spoke to him for the rest of the day.
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