#but it is also really really really good
“Most of you seem to favor punishment,” he said. “But you realize it won’t be punishment, do you?” Everyone was puzzled at this. The way we all looked made Antony Green grin. “As far as this lady herself is concerned,” he explained, “she was in the right all along–all her life. Nothing is going to make her see she was wrong. And the only point of punishment is to make someone see the error of their ways. If they don’t see it, then what you are doing to them is vengeance, not punishment. Right? I daresay a lot of you do want vengeance. But if you do take revenge, that makes you as bad as this Mrs. Laker herself. I want to stop the wrong in Cranbury. So I am not going to take revenge. I’m simply going to put her away quietly. She probably won’t even realize I have. Is that understood?”
–Aunt Maria, Diana Wynne Jones
