""Is that seat available?" she asked politely.

Licking her lips nervously, one of the girls responded, "Like we told one of you Slytherins' earlier, we don't associate with snakes."

Her response elicited a raised brow. Interhouse politics were irritating at times. "That doesn't answer my question. Is. That. Seat. Available?" she asked, punctuating her sentence to make it clear that Elspeth Macbain does not suffer fools."

SLAY EM ELSPETH