No sooner had they reached the door separating Fluffy from the rest of the school than Professor McGonagall turned up again and this time, she lost her temper.
They could hear her raging and storming at her mother all the way up the stairs, and when she reached the hall, Mrs Blacks ear-splitting shrieks were added to the din.
That he did not, upon the whole, think it advisable to interrupt her conversation with Wildeve, without being prepared to bear the whole weight of her displeasure, was obvious.