Thank you! I intended Willowberry to have a secret for a time, but I couldn't choose which one at first, and I didn't want to write that scene until I knew.

More hints about Hermione and Millicent's plan are revealed in the next chapter.

Rita probably does want to report the truth here- but that would be an exception rather than a rule. :)

Oh, but what would a story be if things didn't go wrong at inconvenient times?