" And thirdly, " said Uncle Vernon, his mean little eyes now slits in his great purple face, " we've told Marge you attend St. Brutus's Secure Center for Incurably Criminal Boys."
" That mangy old half-blood has been stealing Black heirlooms? " said Phineas Nigellus, incensed; and he stalked out of his frame, undoubtedly to visit his portrait in number twelve, Grimmauld Place.
Among themselves, though, Olive described a spirit of " low obscenity and meanness, " and they would regularly ask the girls if they wanted to escape — a question they didn't dare answer honestly.