"If you want to do what your parents say, you can," says Matilda. "But sometimes parents are wrong about things, or don't care. My parents were wrong a lot and didn't care very much, and that's why I got Miss Honey to adopt me. I think if you know your fheeil is wrong about you being crazy, then it's okay not to do what he says when you know he's only saying it because he's wrong about something."