Harry didn't answer. He knew Snape was trying to provoke him; he had done this before. No doubt he was hoping for an excuse to take a round fifty points from Gryffindor before the end of the class.
" Couldn't you do it now? " asked Laurie, so suggestively that Jo shut the gate in his face with inhospitable haste, and called through the bars, " Go away, Teddy, I'm busy."
And this thought it must have been which suggested to Ahab that wild exclamation of his, when one morning turning away from surveying poor Queequeg—" Oh, devilish tantalization of the gods! "