Victor kind of didn't want to tell Olive this, all of a sudden. The story made him feel less like a person, and he liked that she mostly seemed to see him as one.

"Topher reprogrammed me so I was on Umbridge's side," he said, and suddenly that toaster he'd set down was fascinating; he kept fidgeting with it. "Tony Stark fixed it, but not before I did some stuff I'm really not proud of."

He looked back to her and added, with some bitterness, "And then, you know, there was a big fight, good guys won, things went back to normal, hooray."