If you pass by your enemy somewhere (school cafeteria, hallway or simply your classroom) and he suddenly makes fun of you out of the blue, don't cry and run away!
It was safer, Megan's pose suggested, to strike wary airs than to convey an earnestness that could be exploited by her enemies at school or, worse, on the Internet.
At the same time, he is clear that the despoilers of James's innocence are also his staunchest allies against the people whom James regards as his true enemies: the school administrators and, most particularly, the fellow students who make his life a daily hell.
Maybe enemies from school if you go to their house.
This makes them prime examples of left-wing conservatives.However, Mr Blair is doing more than identifying enemies in schools.
"The adult personality — including political views — is forever defined in opposition to one's natural enemies in high school," Brooks writes.
For in our Third Golden Age, we ask children to confront not only the traditional enemies such as school bullies or Dark Lords, but Death itself.
The latest fighting, between forces loyal to the Liberian president, Charles Taylor, and his rebel enemies, turned the school's year-end plans upside down.
The Pittacus Lore novels, for instance, feature a numeric progression of comely adolescent aliens like little Supermen, hiding out on Earth from their beleaguered planet's enemies – pabulum for school pariahs secretly awaiting the onset of superpowers.
Looking at Jey's initial fears: "I feared all pupils and teachers … [but] I have no enemies in this school, all of them help me", it sounded like this 'peer-connections' created grounds for pupils unlearning social alienation, it countered fear of 'others' and desensitised peer competitiveness towards collaborative learning cultures.
