I think it has taken everyone's breath away"Luna laughed and said, "I won't need to publish it in the announcements column of the next edition of the ...uibbler. It seems to be spreading like wildfire without any help from me." She paused and turned to Dudley and said, Dudley I would like to introduce you to the headmistress of Hogwarts, Professor McGonagall. Professor this is my Fiancé Dudley Dursley and his daughter Petunia."The Professor shook hands with Dudley and said, "I am very pleased to. While he hadnever hit me again, he also barely touched me after that day.Eventually, I had no more tears, just a deep ache. I was still snifflingwhen I realized where a faint but painfully familiar stink had been comingfrom. "Aunt Joan, I think I ...." Sh sh shhhh, we'll take care of that in a moment." Aunt Joan turnedtowards Cori and Terri, who were partially blocking the light coming inthrough the doorway. "It's okay girls. You can go back to bed, but I'llneed to talk to you in a few minutes,. You are sterile. Like Bill, you can't father a c***d. I feel terrible about it, but you need to know before you get serious with any girls."She was crying now, the tears slowly running down while the murky fluid dimmed her normally bright blue eyes. She had been bearing this cross for eighteen years waiting for the right time to tell me and thinking that it would break my heart and ruin our relationship. Quite the contrary, it awakened a new sense of freedom in me. These last few years I had. . I thought of when I saw you at the bar." Oh, so you thought the drunk girl was "easy," did you? Now I'm definitely not sleeping with you." No. That wasn't it. I just thought how pretty you were, and that if you hadn't been bad-mouthing the Mavericks, every guy in the place would have been all over you."She looked at me for a moment before finally giving me a small smile. "Well, thanks. I guess. But we're still not hooking up." She grinned, thankfully, which took a bit of the sting out of her.