And it wouldn't have changed things much to reveal all their nefariousness to the class council either, if someone had downplayed it as 'assumptions of those who like to make trials of intentions, of which they don't actually have a shred of evidence.’
Then there were certainly those who would have waved like a bogeyman the possibility of legal retaliation by those powerful families, to block any measure harsher than a couple of days' suspension, but then why call into question the brave boys who had brought all that rot to light, exposing them to the danger of an endless feud?
There remained the possibility of informing the police, having them foil the attack directly. By catching the perpetrators in the act with the poop in the bucket, they would have put their intentions on trial, at
