Lord Borr was nothing but a bully. No matter how much he shouted, spat, waved his stupid cane around, Daphne wasn't going to change her mind. And he was laughing at students. At Phoebus to be exact. Her eyes immediately found the boy's face and Daphne pouted in his direction feeling completely embarrassed and humiliated on his behalf.

Not only that he was being so mean to Willow Kovac too! She was a girl. Weren't you supposed to be nice to girls?

Suddenly she just felt like crying. But Daphne Hopton did not cry. Hoptons didn't cry in front of bullies.

Standing up, she took a deep breath and bowed deeply. While she bowed, Daphne counted slowly to ten before straightening up once more, this time a pleasant expression on her face. "Daphne Hopton," she said simply with that expression she often used on her own Mother. The 'I'm smiling and being polite and taking everything you're saying into account' expression when she really was wishing to be everywhere else but here.

"My ambition is to...." what was her ambition? To not cry? To get out of this classroom? To not make Judith Hopton upset? "My ambition is to make my parents proud."