With some effort, Holliday bit back her retort. It would not be the first time that Borgin sent her to detention on a whim, but at the same time, she did not relish the prospect. Where was Turner when she needed him, or Macnair? Other prefects seemed to have a gift for keeping her dormmate in line.

"There will come a day when you no longer wear your badge, Miss Borgin," she returned loftily. Though no one could miss the malice in her tone, the words themselves were not at all damning, but instead a statement of fact. "It would be unwise to rely overmuch upon its authority."