Chapter XIII - News News News

We should be getting a letter any minute now. Either way, I've been doing some research on Salem School of Witchcraft and I hadn't found anything relevant." Hermione was quite upset, she hadn't been able to find anything else on their teacher, just some background information on the other Marie Matthews. She was a student in Hogwarts around the time Harry's parents were there, she was a member of the Order of the Phoenix like Marie had told them, but that was it. All the students records were sealed and she couldn't get to them.

Hermione kept walking holding Ron's hand and smiling at him while Harry was chasing Neville through the alley. They stopped when Neville bumped into Jean and started studdering. He had meant to ask her out since she came back from St. Mungo's but never got the nerves to it. It was pretty obvious she liked him too. She smiled at them and said hi to Neville while walking away. Harry stopped her and took her friend away for a moment, leaving Nev alone with Jean.

After two minutes or so they saw them smiling at each other and heard her "Yes! I'd love to." They started walking towards the Defense Room, only to find a surprise inside.
Remus was bringing a big muggle cake, and Dumbledore, along with Hagrid, Professor Snape, Minerva and Chris Matthews were singing Happy Birthday to Maggie. Harry felt like getting her a present but they couldn't get close from her.

Professor McGonagall asked them to leave and close the door behind them. They were shocked but agreed without making any comments. Harry was obviously upset about not being able to come in.

"Now, dear, this is our birthday present." Remus gave her an envelope from Hogwarts, written down by Minerva. "I'll take the polijuice potion here and there so no one suspects and you can change your eye colour, hair, wear glasses, I don't know."

Maggie was speechless. She just hugged him so tight he could barely breath. She whispered to his ear "I don't know how you convince them, but thanks" and she kissed him in the cheek. Then she hugged Minerva and also thanked her from the bottom of her heart. "I'll prepare the Potion myself and take it when Lupin can't." Maggie felt like insulting Snape and telling him to sod off, but he was doing her a favour. "Thanks Severus."

It was Dumbledore's turn to talk. "Now Magdaline Smith Matthews, you have to be very sure of this. Here are the conditions: you will keep being Marie Matthews and give the afternoon lessons in this classroom and the additional lessons, and when Remus cannot cope, then you'll cover both morning and afternoon classes. We'll make something up for Maggie Smith, there are tons of things that can happen to a student, but very little to a teacher. No one can suspect anything. You'll be sorted into one of the houses and will have to cope with whichever house you get sorted in. You will have to look radically different from how you look now. You will have to change your attitude as a student and still be resposible as a teacher. Do you agree to this terms?"

She did without thinking twice. "Very well then, we'll let the students in and you tell them a new student will be joining us next week and that Remus will be taking over the morning lessons."

One thing bothered her though "What are we gonna do about Hermione? I've been trying to avoid her, but she's bound to figure it out, if she hasn't yet."

A silent filled the room. They all knew Miss Granger's temper and attitude towards a mistery, though they had no idea she had sent a letter to Viktor. Ron didn't know this either, he thought she had sent a letter to his brother.

Minerva spoke "If she mentions anything, do all in your power to shut her up, suspend her if you have to and send her to my office. I'll explain her the situation without revealing much." They walked away.

***

As the 6th and 7th years walked into the classroom, Chris came out, bumping into Ginny Weasley. He smiled at her and kissed her softly in her cheek, almost in her mouth. She looked over the shoulder and saw Hermione and Harry looking at it with surprise.

She decided to take it further and kissed Chris fully on the lips causing a huge silence in that classroom doorway. Thankfully, no other teacher but Maggie was around, though she wasn't pleased.

Chris took off saying hi to the guys and looking at Harry with dismay. He stopped him. "What are you doing mate? You want to get suspended? You can't go around kissing girls in the doorway!" Harry sounded jealous but he wasn't, he was just worried about Ginny, and what she was becoming.

Chris told him that he was just jealous and warned him to get away from his sister or else he'd regret it and took off. Hermione told him to come in and gave Ginny a reproving look. When the red haired came in she could feel the piercing look of Maggie going through her skull.

"Miss Weasley, you and Mr. Matthews are getting detention. You know the school rules." Ginny meant to argue it but Maggie wouldn't let her. She came really close to her and almost whispering she said "If you are using him to make Potter jealous you'll regret it, understood?" Ginny's hatred towards her increased by the minute.

Maggie came back to the desk and told the 6th years to sit on the back of the classroom and paid no attention to them. She told the 7th years to pick a piece of cake if they wanted, since there was plenty for everyone. It didn't seem to end, the pieces would multiply themselves.

Hermione sat down and for a moment forgot about Ginny. She asked Professor Matthews a simple question: "So, how old are you now?" Maggie was perplexed. "Older than you Hermione, older than you. 22 if you must know."

She tried but couldn't stop looking at Ginny with despise. She had been dating her brother for the last month, but she knew in her heart Ginny didn't love him. She was using Chris to make Harry jealous, and it wasn't working.

Maggie started explaining why Remus was back at Hogwarts: there was much work with all these new schedule and she'd be coming back and forth from the Ministry figuring out who attacked the school during the Auror Testings. Besides, there were too many teaching hours due to the new plan and just one teacher wasn't enough.

Draco told her then that Professor Snape could take over the lessons and he mentioned again that Lupin was a werewolf. "I know that Malfoy, but thanks for the reminder yet again. As I said before, we are aware of that. I know what Remus is capable of, probably more than you, and I know in my heart he will never hurt any of you. Anything else?" The class remained silent.

"Okay well, there's something else before we start with the class. Or nope, let's do this first. I want you 7th years to team up with one of the 6th years that are NOT from your House, allright? You will teach that person something you've learnt in our classes and then both of you we'll write a report. We'll compare them and that will be your first mid term. You have until next monday. 20 pages."

They started pairing up, and when Ginny sat next to Draco, Maggie snapped. "Find other teammate Weasley" Ron thought she was talking to him. "Not you Ron, your sister. Come on, gettup." They all wondered why and Ginny was reluctant to follow her instructions. The red hair got up defiantly and asked why, after all Draco was a Slytherin and she was a Gryffindor.

Maggie turned all red with anger and the room started feeling cooler than usual. It was snowing outside. "Well, let's see, I could give you millions of reasons, like, let's see, you were possesed by the Heir of Slytherin once, so, a part of you was Slytherin like, but well, I don't have to give you any explanations on my decision, cos, that's a perk of being your teacher!" She had an evil smile on her face. "Unless you want more detention for not following my orders." Ginny kept insisting and Maggie finally told her something more understandable "I happen to care about Draco and I don't want YOU corrupting him like you've done with my BROTHER! NOW DO AS I SAY BARBIE!"

The room went silent. A teacher had not only abused her power but insulted a student. Ginny was paralized and Draco decided to get up and talk. He asked Professor Matthews for a word in her office and she agreed, leaving Neville in charge of the class.

Neville asked Ginny to find another partner and smiled at her giving her confidence, though he didn't approve her behaviour towards Chris Matthews. Then he came back to his place and paired up with Jean's kid sister Louise.

The Gryffindor friends were in shocked and didn't know what to say or think. Maggie had taken it too far but at a point it was understandable. Neville defended Maggie's position as usual and Harry wasn't sure what to think. Ron was completaly mad at her, until Hermione spoke. "Look Ronald, she snapped. How would you feel if Ginny was used by someone else to make some other girl jealous?"

Hermione placing herself in Maggie's shoes was more shocking than the whole scene they had just seen. Ron got very mad at his girlfriend, as he used to all the time lately. He sat down quietly and started talking to a 6th year girl from Hupplepuff.

They sat down as Maggie came out of the office with Draco, smiling.

"Allright guys, there's one more thing I'm supposed to tell you before you start with your mini lesson" they all stood silent and she kept staring at Ginny with hatred. "Allright, Hogwarts will have a new student next week." She breathed in slowly. "Her case is quite unusual and basically she's a 7th year that will be joining one of your houses. She's never been in a magical school in her life, so it's all very new to her, allright? Be patient with her." Draco asked her how come she'd manage to get into the school if she's never been to one.

"Well, she's been having magical tutors all her life, I was one of them actually. She's one of the smartest witches of her generation according to Dumbledore, no offense Miss Granger. Anyway, she'll probably get to Gryffindor or Slytherin due to her family line so..." she looked at Hermione and Draco "Please behave."

Draco smiled and nodded approvingly and so did Hermione, who asked her one last thing. "What's her name?" Maggie smiled "Magdaline Smith, rings a bell?" The guys knew there were on the right track, and that Marie didn't want to keep the secret from them.

Hermione smiled her l-know-it-all smile and started writing down in a quill. Harry wondered who this new girl really was...

Maggie started giving some lines for the lessons but she was interrupted by a noise in the window. She waved her eyebrow and the window opened, letting a lot of snow in, feeling up Ginny Weasley with snowflakes and letting an owl in.

Hermione recognized the own right away, it was Krum's... the timing couldn't be worse. She got even more frightened when the owl dropped something on Maggie's desk.

Maggie's face lightened when she saw the envelope. "Oh, a birthday card from Viktor and Charlie! How sweet!" Hermione a cold shiver and Harry felt sick. Maggie's face changed and looked straight into Hermione's eyes.

The room went colder than it was. "Well well well" Maggie got up, having two pieces of parchment in her hand. "So, I swear I really tried to like you Hermione. I tried to overlook your dismay towards my lessons, your know-it-all attitude that got in my nerves. You are a Gryffindor, I'm the co-head of Gryffindor, I had this stupid thought of us maybe liking each other. But no. You little brat."

Harry and Ron knew Hermione had never been in trouble like now. "What did you expect me to do? Sit here and do nothing? You ARE hiding something and I will-"
"You will SHUT UP, I'm not done." She waved her hand and Hermione's voice went away. Maggie started reading Hermione's letter outoud "Dear Viktor" So, you wrote to your ex, makes sense" she coughed. " -" It's been two months since my last letter and I needed to talk to you" - how touching Miss Granger." She knew perfectly well Ron would get upset about it and say something. "You wrote to Krum?"

"Oh, Mr. Weasley, I should've known. Did you know anything about this Harry? Neville? Any OTHER noisy Gryffindor?" She was irate. "Allright, I won't keep reading this sweet letter, is confiscated from now on. Well, That's it."

She shut up and went to her desk. She turned around and crossed her arms. "You really thought that Viktor wouldn't tell Charlie about this? Do you really think that if I have something to hide and Charlie knows about it he's gonna tell you? Charlie Weasley is my friend, is one of the oldest friends I have. If you want to know anything about me Hermione, you ask ME, understood? You don't go around sending letters to your ex or anyone else, you ask me or Professor McGonagall or even Dumbledore." She went silent again. She was upset about the whole situation but she also knew (as well as the teachers) that it wouldn't take long for her to find out the truth.

"If I have something to hide, you really think I'll be able to cheat Dumbledore? I'm here because he asked me to, and that's all you need to know. You are suspended for the next week." She waved her hand at her and sat on the desk. "WHAT? Me? Suspended?"

"Oh, you have a hearing problem? You... Are... Suspended... For a Week. You should've thought about it before sending this letter. Don't piss me off more or it will be two weeks. And you Weasley, you'll get Detention for the Next Month." Hermione started soaking.

"Please, don't make a scene here Granger, I'm trying to give a class. You've drawn this upon yourself. Now, go to Professor McGonagall's Office and beg for her mercy or whatever."

She run away crying.

Maggie felt bad, but she had to do it. She had to put an end to this and also this would help Harry to see her differently. "Anyone has any questions about me? I'm free to answer. None? Allright, class dismissed." Draco argued about not having classes.

"Now you want to have a lesson Draco? Gimme a break dude, its my birthday, I've just ruined Hermione Granger's perfect School Report. Go away, don't you have girls to chase, Gryffindors to bully, anything?" Draco laughed at this usual comment. Professor Matthews wasn't that bad after all.

Most of the students went away, except for Neville, Harry and Ron.

"I know, I was too hard, but she went over the line guys, honestly." Harry decided to speak "Professor Matthews, could you not suspend her? We all knew about that letter, you should suspend us all."

Maggie would have loved being Hermione then, having all her friends standing up for her. "Harry, nice try. If you want to take the blame not to ruin her perfect report, do it, but she wrote to Krum. You want detention? Fine, you'll all get detention. Now, go go go."

Harry was puzzled, didn't know what to think about her. What Hermione did was excessive, not to mention idiotic, considering she wrote to her ex, but what Marie had just done was cruel. He walked away along with the rest of the students. Neville talked to her about Auror training (he was too, giving her a reproving look) and Ron stood silent. "I'm not gonna suspend her for real. I just wanted to make a point. I AM her teacher and she HAS to respect me Nev, don't give me that look please." Neville understood and started walking away, but stopped when he saw Ron standing still.

"Professor Matthews, could I have that letter please? The one she wrote to Krum." Maggie asked Neville to go.

When they were alone, she started talking to him "Ron, Hermione loves you. She's a stubborn little brat but she does love you. If she wrote to Krum it was to figure out who I really am. She should have asked though." Ron kept asking for the letter and she kept refusing.

"You don't understand Miss, she lied to me, she told me she was no longer writing to Viktor." Maggie coughed a bit. "Well Ron, you've lied to her too. I've seen the way you look at Parvati and I recall seeing you last thursday outside with her."

Ron stared at her, he didn't know what to do or say. "I'm not gonna say anything. I mean, you shouldn't sneak out like that at night, the school is under constant attacks Ron. And you shouldn't cheat either. Specially not to Hermione, she's a nice girl."

At last, she gave him the letter. As he was walking away, she regreted saying who was the letter directed to.

"Happy Birthday Mags" she picked up a piece of cake and saluted her own reflection in the window. She was gonna be one lonely student...

Chapter XII - Muggle Medicine

The Ball was canceled due to the attack. All the children were gathered in the Great Hall and slept there, just like on 3rd year.

Neville and Harry joined Hermione and Ron later that same day and told them all about the attacks... or almost all of it.

Late at night Dumbledore called for Harry, who was pretending to be asleep. When he reached his office, he found Marie and Minerva arguing with Dumbledore and Snape. They all shut up when he came in.

"So Harry, you found Jean. Did you see anyone else around?" Harry said he didn't. He still wouldn't say anything about the message on the wall. "Did you see anything else unusual around?" Harry cleared his throat and told them the message on the wall. Maggie went all white.

One of the old Headmasters started talking from his portrait. "Albus, Jean will be fine, Dr. Finnigan just came out of surgery I think is called." They all sighed. He also mentioned her parents were there and will be coming to school when she felt better.

They were too part of the Order and wouldn't disclose any information. Harry then realized there was a lot more going on that he even suspected. Maggie asked if she was needed further because Draco was almost alone in the Hospital Wing and didn't want him to. Dumbledore asked her to stay a bit longer.

"Who do you think is after this attacks Marie?" It was a straight question that needed a straight answer. Snape remained silent looking down. There was something about Marie that made him hush. "I think it was Lucius Malfoy. After all, you hadn't been able to reach him yet."

Dumbledore sniffed dissaprovingly. "Oh dear." But Marie didn't change her expression. "It's the same phrase Albus, it is him." Minerva told her that made no sense, Lucius wouldn't attack his own son. Harry talked "He would if he wants the attention to be driven away from him."

They all stood silent. Snape then talked, still looking down. "I don't think it was Malfoy. He would never use a muggle thing, not even a weapon."

Marie sensed a great feeling of sadness coming from Snape. Almost the same she felt for her parents. "Allright then, if you won't hear my ideas, can I go? I wanna ask Draco if he remembers anything." Still Dumbledore wouldn't excuse her.

Harry was sent away instead, but he wouldn't leave. He had questions.

"The last part of the message mentioned traitors and heirs. Does it refer to the Heir of Slytherin?" They all went silent. "I believe so, the truth is Harry, we don't know what it means yet."But Harry knew. And so did Maggie. And so did Snape.

He would start looking after them, both of them, without them knowing.

Harry left the office with Professor Snape and headed back to the Great Hall. While walking there, Harry asked him about something Marie had mentioned, another attack. Snape was reluctant to talk, but he slipped something. "Years ago, a couple was murdered and part of that phrase was written down in the wall." Harry thanked him for the information and joined his friends, but didn't mention anything about their conversation.

***

Dumbledore had asked Marie to stay for different reasons. For one, he wanted her to respect his decisions. "She would have died Albus, Minerva agreed with me." The other thing was about the Vampires and who, besides Lucius, she tought might be after the attacks. "I told you already, but if you don't want to believe your precious Malfoy would kill his own son, well at least you have to accept the fact that it was the same person that killed my parents and Mike."

Dumbledore wouldn't. She got up. "Allright, whatever Dumbledore. We have another problem besides this." Minerva looked at her with concern. "Hermione knows about my parents. This whole teacher's character is pointless now." She left them speechless.

***

When Draco woke up he saw Maggie asleep in a chair next to him. She had brought him back from that limbo he was in somehow and took that awful muggle thing out of his arm. He owed her his life.

He whispered "Professor" and she walked up with a startle and made a blue circle around them, then she realized she had fallen asleep and Draco woke her up, the circle vanished. "Sorry about that. How are you feeling Draco?" He smiled at her and thanked her for saving his life, she mentioned that if it wasn't for Neville's help, she wouldn't have done it. "I'll thank him too when I see him." And Maggie felt thankfullness and kindness coming from him, and that surprised her.

She smiled. "Allright, now that you're up, do you remember anything of your attacker?" Draco started feeling pain in his left arm, she looked at the wound and she saw a small deadmark on it. She went blank for a minute but then she led energy to his arm using both of her hands and chanelled the curse out of Draco.

He sighed and thanked her again. "I don't remember much, whomever attacked us was more interested in Jean I dunno. It was a tiny person, the size of a tall house elf but it had a cloak, a dark cloak." He swallowed. "Like a Deadeater's cloak?" He nodded. "Then it took this black thing that hit my arm and the next thing I know is I'm in some weird limbo and I hear your voice and then I wake up. Sorry."

She smiled at him again and held his hand. "No problem dude, really. Now, we hadn't been able to reach your father, do you know where can he be?" Draco started feeling despise, just like when he was close from Harry. "No idea, probably with that new woman he's seeing, I'm not sure. Still, promess me you won't tell him about this. You'll never get the end of it."

Draco seemed to mistrust his father as much as Maggie did. She promised. "Minerva will want to call him anyway, we'll just tell him you got a bad curse in the Auror Test, allright?" He agreed and then asked her about the test, if it'll be taken again. "Nope, either way, you both passed, vanquised the demons and trolls on your way. I just hope Jean can come back and see it for herself."

Dr. Finnigan came into the Hospital Wing around 7 am. He checked Draco's arm and congratulated Marie for her job. He still wanted to take Draco to St Mungo's to do some X-Ray and maybe put him a casquet for a few days. Draco looked at him with mistrust. Snape came along to go with Draco, and Maggie reasurred both of them that Finnigan knew perfectly well what he was doing. She also told Severus about the Deadmark on Draco's wound, and that the same thing might be happening with Jean.

Draco decided to trust her and walked away followed by Severus.


Marie had just realised of all the things that had happened in the last 24 hours. She wanted to cry and she was terrified of what might happen next. She knew who the traitors were and had a pretty good idea what the graffitti meant when it said Heirs. Minerva held her and she couldn't stop the tears anymore.

"Maggie, listen to me, this is not your fault darling, whoever did this is after Harry, not you, allright?" She kept crying. "I'm going to talk to Albus, we'll find a way to make you a student, this whole thing is ridiculous." Maggie smiled but kept crying, feeling guilty.

She felt guilty and powerless, just like when that Deadeater killed her parents. Maggie took a long breath "Uncle A will never agree, it's allright Minerva really, I'll be fine." But Minerva was tired of all as well.

"I'll change his mind, don't worry dear. I'll call Remus for backup. You'll be one of them."

***

Two days had passed with no lessons, and no excursions off grounds, not even out of the Great Hall. The doors opened and Minerva came in, followed by Maggie, who was wearing a black cloak. That didn't seem like a good sign.

Dumbledore was missing and so was Professor Snape & Professor Flitwick. The children had no news about Draco or Jean and not many people knew what had happened. Minerva sat down at the Headmaster's chair and Maggie approached to the tables. She cleared her throat and started talking.

"Good morning. As some of you may know, the Auror Tests were taken on Monday, and two of our students were unfortunately hurt." Harry could see the tears in her eyes. "Both Draco Malfoy and Jean Marx are currently at St Mungo's Hospital being looked after by the Heads of their Houses, their parents, doctors and healers. Draco will be back at Hogwarts by the end of the week. As of Jean..." Her voice broke.

"Jean is very sick. She has entered a comma, which in wizard language is like being asleep under a curse. The doctors are not sure when or if she'll leave that comma." She sighed and kept talking. "In the views of what happened, the Ministry has been consulted and it's been decided that the school will remain opened since it was just an unfortuned event. Professor Dumbledore due to personal issues will remain in this school but our Deputy Headmistress will take over his position for the time being. As of me, I'll be the Head of Gryffindor until Professor Lupin join us, also by the end of the week."

The room was silent. Everyone of them knew there was more to it than what she had said. She hushed, looked at the Gryffindor table and asked Hermione for a word.

"I need your help." Hermione looked at her with dismay. Maggie took her away from her table. "Harry is in danger, whatever attacked on monday we'll return, look after him." She took off to the teacher's table. Hermione stayed on the spot for a moment looking at her, realizing Marie liked Harry, and that she was in pain as much as he was.

"I've been a fool."

Her friends came towards her asking what happened, but she lied saying that the security measures were high and that Marie wanted her help until Lupin came back. Harry didn't believe her. He zipped a little bit of alcohol and kept staring at Maggie.

***

Classes were dull and bored and most of the teachers were covering for others, even Hermione covered for Professor Flitwick during the week. Neville was named deputy Headboy until Draco came back and was in his full capabilities, which happened on Friday.

He was brought to school by Professor Snape and Professor Lupin. They entered the Great Hall during lunch, and all the student applauded Draco coming in. Maggie run to Remus and they hugged each other twirling. "As soon as I found out about the attack I had to come and see you." Maggie was extremely happy of having him at Hogwarts.

Draco joined his table and even the Gryffindors were happy for him. Lupin sat on a chair between Minerva and Maggie and kept giggling and talking to her. Both Harry and Neville were jealous of him, but for different reasons.

Later that day Professor Flitwick came to Hogwarts, with relatevely good news. Jean had woken up from the comma but she had no recollection of what happened... during the last year. It was a very odd side effect of a bullet, or even of the curse.

Classes went back to normal and so did the teachers, though students could sense that everyone was on guard, expecting something to happen.

***

"I'm glad to be back at Hogwarts. I hope you welcome Professor Lupin once again in our midst since he is one of the best teachers this school has ever seen, and we can never have enough help in teaching." Dumbledore coughed severily, it was being obvious for every student that he was very sick. "Allright allright, well, the Ball and the Quidditch tournament have been postponed long enough, so the games will begin this weekend, and the Ball we'll be on October 16th, you have almost 2 weeks to find your partners." He smiled at the Ravenclaw's table, where Jean was sitten down. "We have many thing to party upon. Both Mr. Malfoy and Miss Grey are back among us and Professor Lupin is joining us." He meant to say something else, but Minerva coughed making him stop. Dumbledore waved at all the students and sat back in his chair.

Snape was not pleased at all to see him around, and neither was Draco. He liked werewolves even less than mudblods (even though he was sure Marie was a mudblood and had saved his life).

Draco made that point quite obvious during that afternoon lesson. It was one of the last Maggie would give on her own. "Professor, I understand what you say about Lupin, but he IS a werewolf. I don't think 1st years' parents will want a werewolf teaching their children." Maggie got upset.

She couldn't believe Draco would tell her that. Harry wanted to talk on Lupin's behalf but she wouldn't let him "Look Malfoy, we are all aware that Remus is... special. And so are the parents, besides, the Ministry agreed and so did the parents. And Hogwarts might not be as safe as it used to be, but there's NO chance a teacher would hurt a student, even if they are different 3 days per month. Understood?" Draco nodded.

At the end of the class, Neville gave Draco his Head Boy badge back, but Draco wouldn't accept it. "I never thanked you for saving my life Longbottom." Neville looked surprised at him and so did Harry and Hermione, who were right next to him. "I'm in no condition to be Head Boy, you should, you've done great so far. See you around." He smiled at Neville and walked away.

Harry looked at Maggie, who was smiling at Neville and Draco proudly. "So Harry, ready to rock?" "Huh?" Maggie giggled (she kept on giggling a lot since Remus had joined them). "I meant if you're ready for Saturday's game, remember? Gryffindor vs. Ravenclaw?"

Harry had completaly forgotten about Quidditch, he excused himself and went away looking for Ron, but Hermione stayed. "Can I have a word with you Professor?" Maggie said she couldn't since she was in a hurry.

Hermione didn't know what to do. She hadn't received an answer from Romania, she felt Marie and Harry liked each other, but still, she couldn't trust her. She was a teacher using a fake name and even if she wasn't so bad after all, she had to know what she was about.