Miranda goes back into the castle.

He does that too.

And then it's Easter hols and the kids go home for a week.

Mr and Mrs Dwimmer demand of the board that the merfolk responsible for their daughter's experience be identified and destroyed.

The board is amenable.

Ugh ugh ugh ugh ugh.

Can Karen identify any merfolk, does she think?

No of course not they all look the same, she lies.

They could just kill all the ones who aren't obviously children? They don't want to kill them all because there being merfolk in the lake is a Hogwarts tradition.

Um she could probably identify some of them as being not the ones who grabbed her just not the other way around???

It sure does seem like all of them knew about it and didn't prevent it, though.

Not necessarily who knows how merfolk society works!

Sure, she can identify some merfolk as definitely-didn't-do-it and then they'll kill the other adult ones.

They um need to postpone this until her arm is better stress is probably bad for it or something aaaaaaaaaaaaah

"Timothy you need to take over the world sooner."

"I have pretty much no leverage on this."

"If you knew them all and they trusted you to fix it what would you do."

"If I knew them all this would never have happened."

"I don't care fix it."

"- what're you on a tear about this time -" he asks Minor that evening -

"Karen's parents want the board to kill all the merfolk involved in kidnapping her only they can't even identify them so they're just going to kill all the adult merfolk except maybe some Karen identifies as not involved and Timothy won't fix it."

"Hmmmm."

"This is all so stupid and I hate everyone and I wish Timothy ruled the world."

"How much pocket money do you have left?"

"As much as I want, Dad loves me more, why?"

"Come shopping?"