Karla raised a hand up to slap his face; the no touching rule to be suspended for violence. "How dare you," she said, voice trembling either with anger or because she was on the brink of tears. Or both.

"If you don't want to be with me anymore, then don't," she spat, trying to claw his face with her other hand. "But don't pretend it's for any reason other than that. Yes, I was upset when Sookie died--because it was a waste. Because it undid all the work I'd done in Detention that day. That is who I am, who I always have been! Lady Umbridge just let me finally become my true self!"