Rumours were travelling around the school like a wildfire spreading through a dry forest. Most didn't believe that their teachers were children. It didn't sound possible. Mrs Tapioca and Mr Blossom had been dismissed that morning, and it made tempers flare. Mistress Broomhead was not the rightful headmistress, surely.
Mildred had been up all night worrying. As far as she was aware, she was the only pupil in the school that had seen the teachers after their transformation. She'd left one a bad note with HB, who was ordering Mildred to call her Constance. However, Mildred's thought path was interrupted by Enid who entered the room and let the door slam into the stone wall.
"I can't believe it. I just can't believe. Mr Blossom and Mrs Tapioca were possibly the only sane members of staff in the school. And Broomhead marches in here and demands that everyone follows her orders. Surely HB would have done something to her by now, like turn her into a ant and put her in a jar? I mean, why hasn't she?" Enid moaned.
"HB's more scared of her than the rest of us put together. She's too scared to touch her," Maud replied, "What do you think Millie?"
"She's worried she's going to be powerless," Mildred said, while stroking Tabby.
"What?" Enid said, biting her lip to control her giggles.
"Well, she's a child now, but she doesn't know how old she is. Honestly, she's not recognisable, she looks a lot shorter, maybe even shorter than me," Mildred said, letting the words fall out of her mouth like rain leaving the sky.
"You lot are all the same, your as mad as a flock of bats. Of course HB's not a child. There's no such spell," Ethel said, looking at them like they were dirt on the bottom of her shoes, "And your Tabby upset my Nightstar."
"Come on Ethel, we're going to be late for Potions if you don't hurry up!" Drusilla cried, bored out of her mind over the pathetic squabbles between the duo.
"I'm not finished with you, Mildred Hubble," Ethel said with a menacing glare.
"Charming." Enid said once Ethel and Drusilla had left the room. The trio collapsed onto Mildred's bed in a fit of laughter.
